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TIL explorers on Greenland found a P-38 aircraft used during WWII buried under 264 ft of ice. They dug it out and restored it to flying condition.

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e0y66 TIL that the music artist Prince had enough unreleased music written in his vault that he could make an album every year for the next century.
Eg9Od TIL Leonardo da Vinci designed a 12-barreled rapid-fire type of machine gun which was intended to be both lightweight and quite mobile on the battlefield. While he worked on such weapons for the benefit of his patrons, he also did so out of intellectual curiosity.
yy18 TIL that Nazi eugenics programs had their start in the United States, with research funded by wealthy industrial leaders. A 1912 Carnegie Institute report even recommended the use of gas chambers as a solution to the problem of cleansing society of the poor, non-white, and mentally ill.
ADVpB TIL: American companies were THE number one entities that helped Germany rearm them selves after WWI, illegally.
0DY1 TIL in the State of Nevada, it is illegal to willingly collect and harvest Rainwater