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TIL of an area in Ohio called Helltown. It became abandoned in the 1970’s when the US government drove citizens from their homes through eminent domain to form national parks. One poor soul scrawled, “This is how the Indians must have felt” on the wall of his former home.

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w6M1 TIL The U.S. Armed forces maintains military presence in 150 countries (out of 196), including more than 50,000 troops still in Germany.
oLZE TIL of the battle of Cerami; “The Norman Thermopylae”, where 300 Normans defeated 50.000 troops of the Emirate of Sicily
XQAX TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the “Technocracy Movement.” Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who had the expertise to manage the economy.
VMjoQ Til that British spies once tried putting female hormones in Hitler's food in order to feminize Hitler and "Make him less aggressive, and more docile- akin to his sister."
kOAkm TIL in Taiwan, a 96-year-old saved his village from demolition by painting every surface of it with colourful imagery, which brought in so many tourists that the mayor ordered that the village be preserved.