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TIL that daydreaming isn't just zoning out without thinking about anything but literally dreaming while being awake and that I never had a daydream

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4Do6 TIL that during the Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet forces held a single apartment building for 60 days against daily German assaults. The building was transformed into a fortress, with 4 layers of barbed wire, minefields, and a machinegun in nearly every window.
4X0Ma TIL that the fourth funnel on the Titanic was fake. It was for appearances only: it made the ship look bigger. It was not connected to the charcoal ovens, but it was connected to the first-class smoking room, making it a sort of oversized kitchen hood.
QYEe TIL: Otto Von Bismarck said in 1888 “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.“ 26 years later in 1914 World War 1 broke out after Franz Ferdinand was killed in Sarajevo
dg9d TIL Somali General Mohamed Farrah Aidid’s son, Hussein Farrah Aidid, emigrated to the USA when he was 14. He would later join the Marines & be stationed in Somalia as translator during Operation Restore Hope, the mission that targeted his father. Upon his father’s death, he was chosen as successor
16vRP TIL American Civil Right Activist Malcolm X and Vietnamese Leader Ho Chi Minh worked at the same Boston hotel bakery at different times