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TIL that in the '60s, ITT Corporation won $27 million in compensation from the US for damage inflicted on its share of the Focke-Wulf plant by Allied bombing during WW2

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nWpeP TIL that the word Coprolalia (involuntary swearing) comes from the Greek word kópros meaning “dung, feces” and laliā́ meaning “speech”. Essentially translating to Shit-talking.
ZvGR TIL that although the All-Seeing Eye was a real Freemasonry symbol, it has zero connection to the Illuminati except in modern conspiracy theory
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