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TIL Ireland’s Prime Minister Paid Official Condolences for Hitler Only Two Days After His Suicide

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Z8jLB TIL about Molossia, a micronation bordering the U.S. although it's not recognized as a country by any nation, it has its own space program, money, post office and railways. Molossia is in war with east Germany, which doesn't exist since 1989.
mxB5Y TIL that Darryl Dawkins "Chocolate Thunder", who was most famous for his two glass shattering dunks, was the first NBA player to play out of high school. He once claimed to be an alien from the planet Lovetron, where he spent the off-season practicing "interplanetary funkmanship" with gf Juicy Lucy.
KO98Q TIL of the cult of Osiris. In the centuries before Jesus, an Egyptian cult emerged around a dying and rising god-made-mortal whose followers were baptized in order to redeem their sins.
v1meK TIL that the 4 red bars on each corner of the Union Jack don't align.
KpbG TIL of Suicide showers, also known as “widow makers,” are showers where the water is heated in the shower head rather than the traditional method of being fed from a centralized hot water tank.