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TIL Surplus jet engines were used to de-ice railroads in Russia

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OoZvL TIL about the Rosenstrasse Protest, where Non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men protested Nazi Germany's policy of deportation of Jewish men. It was the only mass public demonstration by Germans during the Third Reich.
nNBP TIL that Michael Jackson had a meeting in one of the twin towers on the morning of 9/11 but missed it because he overselpt
PYjlg TIL: The boomerang kid from Mad Max still has the boomerang.
ANkEg TIL about The Hymn to Nikkal, the oldest piece of annotated music known to history, dating from between 1400 and 1200 BCE.
57PD TIL that Axl Rose first heard the famous lines from Welcome to the Jungle (“DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?” “YOU’RE IN THE JUNGLE, BABY!” “YOU’RE GONNA DIE!”) from an old guy in NYC when he hitchhiked there as a young man