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TIL of The Colossus of Prora, a 2.8 mi / 4.5 km long building complex on the island of Rügen, built by Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1939

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5JLQ TIL Jimmy Page played rhythm guitar on the 007 title song for “Goldfinger”
E16QW TIL in 2010, a Polish man living in Germany asked doctors to remove what he thought was a several-year old cyst at the back of his head. However, doctors found that the 'cyst' was actually a .22-caliber round lodged in his scalp. He didn’t noticed it because he was drunk when it happened 5 years ago
Xrrr TIL - Congressman McFadden in 1934 wanted to imprison those who ran the Federal Reserve Bank. “The Fed has cheated the Government of these United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the Nation’s debt.”
N7YBE TIL: Physicians in the medieval times would swish multiple knights urine in their mouths to decide what they ate for the day.
698lw TIL that Thomas Paine became a deputy in the French parliament and voted against executing King Louis XVI