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TIL OF the Colossus of Prora, an unfinished Nazi beach resort in Germany, that is nearly five kilometer-long (3.1 mi) holiday camp, and is being refurbished back into a modern seaside destination.

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E1xDW TIL The grizzly bear is the California state animal, but the grizzly bear is extinct in California
6ExEW TIL before the mass marketing of tobacco, lung cancer was so rare that doctors took special notice when confronted with a case, thinking it a once-in-a-lifetime oddity.
EgMXx TIL: Mitsubishi motors was founded by a samurai.
nWy1d TIL that John Armstrong Jr was the last surviving member of the Continental Congress and lived up until 1843, dying at age 84.
65JW TIL that in 2006, a 45-y.o. woman posed as her 17 y.o. daughter online, sending men provocative photos and panties stolen from the girl while pitting her online boyfriends against one another. One of the men eventually killed another in a jealous rage. He went to prison, but she was never charged.