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TIL that the man who designed Saddam Hussein’s bunker was the grandson of the woman who designed Adolf Hitler’s bunker.

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7roRZ TIL A Japanese Interpreter for Jimmy Carter Once Said “President Carter told a funny story. Everyone must laugh.”
awrmo TIL Greek Mythology says the milky way formed when Hera removed Heracles while he was breastfeeding, spurting milk across the sky.
rNEy4 TIL that during the construction of the New Basin Canal in NOLA the loss of slaves to yellow fever prompted the decision to use cheap Irish laborers instead.
669Q TIL after an 11 year study, cell phones were shown not to increase chances of getting cancer.
KYJ4R TIL Brandolini’s law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle. The law states the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.