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TIL German has incredibly specific compound words for human experiences

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KOnr9 TIL about Project Azorian. In 1974 the CIA built a gigantic claw and lowered it three miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to snag the entire wreck of a sunken Soviet submarine. And they partially succeeded.
X07gX TIL about Octopolis and Octlantis are two separate non-human underwater settlements built by the gloomy octopuses
kO8Ae TIL the band Boston, the album and the hit single "More Than a Feeling" were all created by one person, Tom Scholz, mixing tracks in his basement. The actual band was formed later to play the songs live.
dde8 TIL Winston Churchill had an oxygen mask made for him for flying in high altitude airplanes during WWII that was customized to allow him to smoke cigars through a hole in the mask.
ne09G TIL in Ladakh, India if you sit in the Sun with your feet in the shade, you may suffer from both sunstroke and frostbite at the same time.