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TIL the bronze Nazi eagle emblem from the WW2 German cruiser, Admiral Graf Spee has been recovered in Uruguay and will be melted down and recast as a dove

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l7KW1 TIL the only reason why Led Zeppelin didn’t perform at Woodstock 1969 was because the band’s manager, Peter Grant, decided that Led Zeppelin would be better off playing at the Asbury Park Convention Hall in New Jersey.
N7rJe TIL that former NBA player and devout Mormon, Shawn Bradley, was once fined $10k for not going to a mandatory team meeting at a strip club
kO0V1 TIL About 85 percent of the things you worry about never happen.
4X6Lb Around 74,000 years ago, the Toba supervolcano erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It was the biggest volcanic eruption of the last 2 million years, unleashing 2,800 cubic kilometres of magma. That’s enough to bury the entire United States in a foot-thick layer of ash & rock.
1mdP TIL the skin of a kiwi is perfectly edible and is loaded with fiber and vitamin C.