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TIL: In Spanish, “esposas” means both “handcuffs” and “wives” and it is not a coincidence

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grg6b TIL that from 2003 to 2005, two people conducted an elaborate prank on a man named Kolin Pope, making him think that the was the savior of the world and culminating in an elaborate rock opera about his life
Xmd6 TIL SS Leader Heinrich Himmler frequently carried out occult rituals in an ancient German castle, and may have believed he was the reincarnation of Germany’s first king
9gXD TIL that the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the legislation to form the Secret Service was on his desk.
YBbB TIL there was a 1934 plan to dam and fill the Hudson River, adding 10 square miles of land to Manhattan
wnnM TIL that during the outbreak of World War II, London Zoo killed all their venomous animals in case the zoo was bombed and the animals escaped