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TIL Hitler's private train was named Amerika.

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lovxN TIL humans are driving mammals to shift their activity from day to night making many of them nocturnal.
4XRkR TIL that our eyes and ears don’t tell us enough about the outside world, so our brain uses its expectations to ‘hallucinate’ reality.
R5KB6 TIL of Annie Wilkins, a 63 year old farmer who, given two years to live, embarked on a 4000 mile journey across the US to see the Pacific Ocean
wLKvM TIL that while Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon the Soviet Union had an unmanned spacecraft in lunar orbit on a mission to obtain soil samples. It crashed on the moon the day Apollo 11 left.
kObOg TIL that anyone who moves to Villas Las Estrellas, a settlement in Antarctica, must first have their appendix preemptively removed because the nearest hospital is over 600 miles away.