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b90vZ TIL General Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote a speech in which he took full personal responsibility for the failure of D-Day. History had other plans, however.
OgGX TIL that all those Facebook pages with sick kids, wounded soldiers, lost babies or puppies about to be put down are all scams making their owners thousands of dollars.
x5kb TIL that Carl Sagan was wrong about the Christians burning down the library at Alexandria or killing Hypatia because she was a symbol of learning and science.
kO8DW TIL that during the Great Depression, companies would print colorful patterns onto flour sacks so that women can make dresses out of them
Wv6A TIL there’s a volcano in Indonesia that erupts with blue lava. Local men trek up the mountain daily to mine its sulfur - they carry loads of 180-200 pounds, but the sulfur only sells for only 2.5 cents/pound, so many men make the climb twice a day.