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TIL after a mine tore off the bow of the Greek destroyer Adrias, it successfully sailed 730 nautical miles from Turkey to safely reach Alexandria harbour

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Y7kEr TIL One of the only pieces of Hitler's dream reconstruction of Berlin as Germania is an enormous concrete cylinder in the Tiergarten neighborhood. It's called the Schwerbelastungskörper which translates as "heavy load-bearing body." It was to test the load-bearing capability of the ground.
p8rme TIL that there are dogs who are trained to sniff out electronic devices such as HDD, thumb drives and phones, used often in child porn cases.
yQWoa TIL that Dave Thomas, founder and chief executive officer of fast-food restaurant Wendy's, was born to a young unmarried woman he never knew. Thomas also dropped out of high school to work full-time and did not graduate until 1993, when he obtained a GED.
YpgEA TIL of a farm in South Australia that is solar-powered and uses no fresh water. Opened in 2010, the world-first farm uses desalinated water and sunlight to produce around 15,000 tonnes of tomatoes a year.
xa91 TIL Only one month after release, Call of Duty: Black Ops players had already amassed 68,000 YEARS of playtime