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TIL As Germany was about to lose the First World War Erich Ludendorff was forced to resign and escaped the country on a false passport while wearing a fake beard. While in Sweden he wrote his memoirs which were considered a showcase of his "caesar-mania".

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yVgNe TIL after the fall of the Soviet Union, one of the first American movies to film in Russia was Police Academy 7. They even had to pause filming during the 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis.
d8ZRE TIL of Taylor Guitars who purchased the last remaining liberty tree after it fell from Hurricane Floyd and made some 400 special edition guitars from the wood. They also raised 14 seedlings from the tree and donated a tree to each of the original 13 colonies and one to the White House.
9B9M TIL That Jon Benjamin, the voice of Archer, and Bob of Bob’s Burgers, released a jazz album in which he tries to strike a deal with the Devil to become a great jazz pianist, but is refused. He proceeds to make a jazz album anyway.
x6mD7 TIL in 2023 a woman discovered a construction company in Hawaii had erroneously built a $500,000 house on her empty lot because they failed to conduct a survey before breaking ground. She wanted the house removed. The contractor and the developer sued her in return.
VBMb0 TIL that the 1972 videogame Pong by Atari, which was the first commercially successful videogame in history, was built entirely from analog circuitry. In other words, it didn’t make use of a single line of code