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TIL Occupy Wall Street was Infiltrated by the US Gov't and Dismantled from Within

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yNQp TIL that a British soldier who fought in both World Wars was shot in the face, head, ankle, leg, hip and ear, survived a plane crash, tunnelled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn’t amputate them. He later said “frankly I had enjoyed the war.”
p554 TIL: In France, it is the law, that only a croissant made with pure butter can be straight
wLkL7 TIL there was a plan in the 1920s/30s to dam the Mediterranean Sea, create a series of hydroelectric dams, lower sea levels and make North Africa more fertile. It was imagined by a German who wanted to avoid another world war for resources, land and energy by providing plentiful resources for Europe
PYynO TIL that giving children the names of Nutella, Manhattan, Prince William or Mini Cooper are illegal in France.
1WbP TIL there are more black people in Chicago than in all of Canada.