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TIL Germany still legally recognizes "Aryan certificates" that were issued by the Nazi government from 1933 to 1945.

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mdDo TIL Nikola Tesla, who frequently had his ideas stolen, when asked about it said: “I don’t care that they stole my ideas… I care that they don’t have any of their own.”
wLK01 TIL Zambia is the only country to have entered an Olympics as one country (Northern Rhodesia) and left the games as another. Zambia declared independence on the last day of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
05ly TIL that Target Canada was so poorly planned out and such a failure that Canadians continued to cross the border to shop at Target stores in the United States.
EK4X TIL that all unreleased Kennedy assassination documents are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017, twenty-five years after the passage of the JFK Records Act. Among the items most sought after by researchers are some 1,171 documents still closed by the CIA on national security grounds.
8VaV TIL of Krishna’s butterball. A giant 250 ton boulder situated in southern India, that’s remained stationary on a slippery slope for at least 1300 years, defying an attempt move it using 7 elephants and even natural disasters like tsunami’s and typhoons.