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TIL Hitler's plan after occupying Moscow was to kill all its Residents and replace it with an artificial lake.

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RDVa TIL there is a part of Kentucky that is surrounded by Missouri and is only accessible via Tennessee.
lan7 TIL That Stephen Spielberg directed his first feature film, Firelight (1964), which was released at his local cinema. It was shot on a budget of $500, and took $501 at the box office, giving the film an official profit of $1
O4k4 TIL An Islamic cleric permitted a jihadi to have anal sex in oder to widen his anus to fit a suicide bomb
BV7L TIL during the Iraq war, the US military was in the habit of leaving items such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition laying about, and then when an Iraqi came upon it, they were considered fair game to be killed if they attempted to leave with the goods. This was called ‘baiting’.
Or14 TIL JFK’s brother died in Operation Aphrodite, a secret B-24 drone attack in 1944, because the explosives detonated before he bailed out of the plane