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TIL About Operation Underworld — when the US Government and the Mafia Collaborated to stop Nazis

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7809x TIL that, during the African humid period (late Pleistocene to early Holocene), Sahara was an open grass savannah with shrubs and trees, lakes and rivers, populated with crocodiles, frogs and baboons
b6Bbp TIL that (No man's land) is an area of land along the border between Egypt and Sudan, which is uninhabited and claimed by neither country.
dDeXQ TIL: There used to be a three-cent piece called the "trime."
D1KdY TIL the Second Congo War (1998-2003), relatively recent but almost unknown about in the West, has the worst death toll of any one conflict since the Second World War. 350,000 violent deaths, but the conflict is considered responsible for the deaths between 2,500,000 and 5,400,000 people.
6E6BJ TIL the term "Boston Tea Party" didn't appear in print until nearly 60 years after the actual event. For most of its early history it was known as the "destruction of the tea."