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TIL that George Washington once said that “Overgrown military establishments” under any form of government are “Inauspicious to liberty” and “are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty”

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OoRk6 TIL that since 2016, the real bones of nazist Josef Mengele, the nazist Angel of Death, are used in a brazilian school to teach medical forensics.
0wJZA TIL that in May 1620, southern Germany experienced arctic temperatures and so 900 men and women were accused and executed for witchcraft as scapegoats for the change in temperatures.
QRme TIL the last words on the moon were “..we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return: with peace and hope for all mankind.”
M7QEW TIL In the original Back to the Future script, Doc’s time machine was a refrigerator strapped to the back of a pick-up truck.
ZpayR TIL: the term plastic explosive has nothing to do with modern plastic, it denotes explosives that can be shaped by hand, stemming from the original meaning of the word plastic, meaning something malliable/formable.