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TIL the Gerber Mark II combat knife originally had a 5 degree offset between the blade and the grip, one of the reasons being to ride in the sheath more comfortably - many were returned because of a 'bent blade'.

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rR6WM TIL that November 9th is often called the 'Day of Fate' in German history - Robert Blum's death in 1848, Kaiser Wilhelm's abdication in 1918, Einstein's Nobel Prize win in 1922, the Munich Putsch in 1923, Kristallnacht in 1938 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 all occurred on the same date.
D1YVV TIL the military under Richard Nixon was ordered not to react to any orders from the president due to his depression.
NX4YE TIL that India has a very rare river shark called the Ganges River Shark, which only has 240 individuals left in the world.
PY9bE TIL that when Mister Rogers filed a police report on his car being stolen, it was returned 48 hours later with a note that read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
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