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TIL that German architect Herman Sörgel had a plan to build an enormous dam across the Strait of Gibraltar to lower the sea level of the Mediterranean Sea by up to 200 m to colonize new territories and produce huge amounts of hydroelectricity.

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awa6N TIL on Nov 22, 1963 while watching TV reports of JFK's death, Annie Shapiro had a stroke and slipped into a coma. 29 years later she awoke in bed as a 79 year old grandmother still married to her husband. Her first words upon sitting up were "Turn on the television. I want to watch I Love Lucy"
XE8Pr TIL in 1860 a group of 76 Samurai went on a diplomatic tour of the United States. They were the toast of New York.
O7yR TIL that Soviet psychology once classified “the struggle for truth and justice” as a symptom of paranoid, delusional schizophrenia.
XEbXk TIL I learned an American-born, Irish-raised, fascist, nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw went to Germany to broadcast Nazi propaganda to the UK in a British accent during WWII.
17pV TIL that when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the United States was the world’s largest creditor nation. When he left office in 1989, the United States was the world’s largest debtor nation.