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TIL that during WW2 Ireland’s President and Prime Minister both sent Germany their condolences on Hitler’s death.

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oBrZ7 TIL Angkor Wat actually used a much greater amount of stone than every one of the Egyptian pyramids combined. On top of that, if also occupied a surface area greater than Paris in its entirety
RPy7 TIL in 1809, a woman diagnosed with an ovarian tumor rode 60 miles on horseback to see a surgeon who was willing to extract it. It had never been done before out of fear it would kill the patient. After the 22.5 pound tumor was removed from her body without anesthesia, she lived another 32 years.
XwEX TIL Soviet Russia built a flying tank.
V4AZ TIL Richard Kruspe, one of the members of the Band Rammstein, was an escapee from East Germany.
B0dK TIL that it took almost 100 years for Canada to get it’s own flag (February 15, 1965) since it’s founding date in 1867