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TIL: Horse-sized ducks lived in Australia 20,000 to 50,000 years ago.

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GA5EQ TIL: There was a planned Führermuseum in Germany that was expected to be completed in 1950 which would be a large art museum intended to be filled with thousands of confiscated artwork from the war. Many artworks intended to be displayed were re-looted when they lost and lost forever.
PYDwL TIL Germany lost more soldiers in the Battle of Stalingrad than Britain in the entire war.
woOY1 TIL there are things called Astronomical, Nautical and Civil twilights. I just call them dawn lol.
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mvmx TIL that ASUS is a shortened form of “Pegasus”, in order to be ranked higher on alphabetical lists.