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TIL: There is an underground coal mine on fire in Pennsylvania

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wLQGY TIL in 1992, the UK set up a fake company in order to buy Soviet T-80 tanks, claiming they would be sent to Morocco. The UK studied the tanks and gifted one to the USA for the same purpose.
VBGQB TIL Gunter Schabowski accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall at a press conference in 1989. He had not reviewed the press release script and was absent during the Politburo deliberations.
4Vba TIL that Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs are not only banned in the US, but attempting to smuggle them in is punishable by up to $2500 per egg
j6xPj TIL that until the 18th century, animal trials in court were common across Europe, including trials for murder and beastiality. In 1386, a pig was found guilty of killing a child, it was then dressed in male clothing and executed in the town square.
mDmv TIL That Hitler was so bad at military strategy, that the allies felt that they were better off with him alive, lest he become replaced by some who would prolong the war.