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TIL that Germany has spent $7 Billion on an airport near Berlin that has not had a single flight or passenger.

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OG87 TIL “Weird Al” Yankovic is 53, and his career has outlived many of the people he parodied.
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69NO8 TIL that small dog breeds with stubby legs, such as Dachshunds, Corgis, Pekinese and Basset Hounds, are actually suffering from a form of dwarfism
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8ebP TIL that a German soldier named Fritz Christen stood his ground for 3 straight days and knocked out 13 Soviet tanks and killed nearly 100 enemy soldiers single handedly.