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TIL that the acronym Gestapo was created by a postal clerk who needed the name of the Geheime Staatspolizei to fit on a standard-sized postal stamp.

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0wr6M TIL Tony Iommi, founding member of the Black Sabbath, replaced his finger tips with homemade prostheses made out of plastic after losing them on his last day at a steel factory , requiring him to downtune his guitar to play it, creating their signature sound and helping to define modern metal music.
WmNB TIL learned that the “Groundhog Day” loop could have lasted upwards to 10,000 years and as little as 10 years according to the Writer and Director Harold Ramis
rNmkM TIL that Oliver Law was the first African American to lead US troops into war during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), as part of the Lincoln volunteer batalion
Oolk7 TIL in 2002 a Chinese Toy Company Made a Handheld Video Game called Laden vs USA Where You Can Either Defend the World Trade Center from Being Attacked or Fly Planes Into It
b5OQ TIL that Somaliland, a unrecognized but self-declared state in Somalia, is relatively peaceful, holds democratic elections, and has a functioning government, unlike the rest of Somalia.