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TIL that Germany had officially bid to host the 1942 World Cup, before the event was cancelled due to World War II

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9W9D TIL Nazi Germany offered several countries to take in their Jewish population before the Holocaust. No country opened their doors.
oPvL TIL The Vatican purchased enough carbon offsets for the enitre Papal city in 2007. To this day, the promised planting of a “Vatican forest” has not happened.
W4LX TIL of Genie Wiley who was kept as socially isolated as possible by her father for the first 13 years of her life. She was studied extensively after her release, helping further psychological and linguistic science.
E7Mx TIL that when the Duke of Wellington attended a party in Vienna, some French officers turned away from the conqueror of Napoleon. When a woman apologized for their rudeness, Wellington replied “I have seen their backs before, madam.”
xBDw TIL: 10% of Europeans are immune to HIV. This mutation occurred during the Black Death, which killed 75 million Europeans in the 1400s.