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TIL that there is a monument in Estonia honoring Estonians who served in the Nazi German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS

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XEy76 TIL Offshore oil/gas rigs are among the most productive fish habitats in the world. For some species, the rigs are even better nurseries than natural reefs.
6EGWJ TIL most of the Founding Fathers were likely Deists and not Christians, but saw organized religion as a useful tool for governing the masses
R7pr1 TIL that a British survey concluded that, in an emergency aircraft evacuation, up to 35% of people admit they would try to take some or all of their belongings with them, despite being instructed not to.
drWj TIL IBM coined and popularized the word hexadecimal because the correct latin word- sexadecimal- was too racy
9Yy1p TIL: Cartoonist, Mike Diana, whose comics often dealt with sexuality, violence and religion, was the first person in the United States to receive a criminal conviction for "Artistic Obscenity". The court also ruled that Diana was to submit to warrant-less searches, by police and the Salvation Army.