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TIL composer Rudolph Karel composed operas by writing on toilet paper while imprisoned during WWII

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oBpmR TIL that the catholic church reclassified beavers as fish so they can be eaten during lent
oRBDR TIL Hitler's bunker is now covered by a parking lot and a few unassuming buildings, a strategy to ensure that the surroundings remain anonymous and unemarkable.
dVEQ TIL There was a book written about an ‘unsinkable’, ~800 foot cruiseliner ship, that hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on an April night, didn’t have enough lifeboats, and killed most of it’s passengers. Ship was called 'The Titan’. The book was written in 1898… 14 years before the Titanic sank
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