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TIL: Nazi Germany Dropped Counterfeit Money Across Britian In An Attempt To Cause Hyper-Inflation.

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Gn54 TIL that pi can be (roughly) calculated by throwing hot dogs.
nEX7 TIL: Women were excluded from the White House Correspondents Dinner until 1962, when JFK threatened to boycott unless they were allowed in.
J0pQ TIL The walk disturbance (where a person is so worried about how they walk that they may lose balance) may appear with social anxiety, especially when passing a group of people.
0xNN TIL that the Molai Forest in India (1,360 acres) was planted by a single man, over the span of 30 years. It is now home to Bengal tigers, Indian rhinoceroses and the occasional herd of elephants.
5VmJD TIL that during WWII, Jewish physicist Niels Bohr was smuggled out of Denmark via Sweden to work on the Manhattan project. However, he refused to go to America unless Sweden granted asylum to Denmark’s Jews. 99% of them were saved.