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TIL Hitler’s Private Train Was Named ‘Amerika’

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9xJ6 TIL In 2009 after being told they can’t publish anything that is negative in nature, relating to the government The Fiji Daily Post decided to mock the media restrictions handed down by the government by reporting such stories as: “Man gets on bus” and “Breakfast as usual”
OoQJa TIL that difficulty in hearing in noisy places is a real medical condition called"cochlear synaptopathy" or "hidden hearing loss" and it is undetected in most hearing tests.
VMEkk TIL Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You, Man, etc) wore a Superman cape underneath his clothing until he was 13, "just in case there was trouble."
4M16 TIL that a Roman merchant who sold fake jewels was sentenced to face a lion in the arena. When the gate finally opened, a chicken walked out. Emperor Gallienus proclaimed “He practiced deceit and then had it practiced on him.”
4k8xw TIL that Kuwait has no rivers or lakes in the entire country and almost completely relies on desalination for drinking water. There are currently more than six desalination plants in operation, and Kuwait was the first country in the world to use desalination to for large-scale domestic use.