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TIL Hitler demanded that V-2 rockets be launched from a central facility with a impenetrable concrete dome. Unable to destroy it, the Allies bombed the surrounding area in to oblivion. V-2 Rockets were then launched from mobile batteries.

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kOdlE TIL In 1983, a German magazine bought what they thought where Hitler’s diaries for $6 million. They were authenticated by 3 handwriting experts, but the magazine refused to let any German experts examine them. The diaries were soon revealed as "grotesquely superficial fakes”.
oBbo TIL everyone that visits Bill Gates’ mansion, Xanadu 2.0, is given a pin that automatically changes the lighting, music and temperature of every room they enter according to that persons preference.
18Lr TIL the U.S. Army illegally performed “psychological operations” to manipulate American senators into providing more troops and war funding – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.
oBYkK TIL that rapper Lil Wayne attempted suicide at the age of 12 by shooting himself in the chest and barely missing his heart
jEmp TIL that Quincy Jones composed the music for the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air intro