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TIL: The Nazis original plan was to ship European Jews to Madagascar.

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gr7e9 TIL on a 12ft wide 30mph road you are 50% more likely to get into an accident than a 9ft lane.
BrK9b TIL that in Buddhism, one "Aeon" is the amount of time it takes to completely erode a huge rock 16x16x16 miles in size, by brushing it with a silk cloth once a century.
j6Q6v TIL there was an attempted Islamist coup in Trinidad and Tobago in 1990
4aW6 TIL, Today is the 150th anniversary of General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to northern forces and the end of the American Civil War.
jQjN TIL the FBI used mail delivery robots in their field offices that navigated the buildings by using cells of black lights to follow an invisible fluorescent paint sprayed onto the carpet to designate its route.