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TIL when Sigmund Freud expatriated from Nazi-ruled Austria, he was required to sign a document certifying he was treated well. Reportedly he wrote sarcastically, "I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone."

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kAr5 TIL a sailing ship called Eclipse was overtaken by a hurricane, and then it was hit by a meteor.
x67d7 TIL that in 1865, former Representative Robert Dale Owen, who had been in favor of women's suffrage, drafted an initial version of the proposed Fourteenth Amendment that did not restrict voting rights to men.
x69kw TIL Americans have worse dental health than the British.
0wagN TIL about the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox, an endangered megabat species that has a wingspan of up to 1.7m (5.6 feet).
oNDW TIL in 1876, a railroad bridge collapsed, dropping a train 76 feet into water below and killing 159 people. The President of the railroad had been allowed to design the bridge by an indifferent Engineer. The Engineer was later found with a bullet in his head.