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TIL that planting swastikas in the forests of Germany was “a fad among National Socialist foresters” during the Nazi period and nobody noticed them until decades later.

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OoGbX TIL that in 2012, a group of scientist successfully regenerated a 32000-year-old plant.
QJM0L TIL Lieutenant ‘Mad’ Jack Churchill armed himself with a longbow and a sword during WWII and became the only British soldier known to have killed an enemy with an arrow
E18jX TIL the dept of Homeland Security ran an experiment where they left CDs and USB sticks in the parking lots of government buildings and private contractors. 60% of those who picked them up plugged the device into their office computers, and if it had an official logo, 90% of them were installed.
wolOE TIL that Ben Affleck's first directorial effort was a 1993 short film titled "I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney"
0wZXL TIL of Samoset, the first Native American to make contact with the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony. He entered the settlement unannounced, greeted the colonists in English (which he had learned from fishermen in Maine), and asked for beer.