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TIL Germany still pays pensions to Nazy veterans.

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a88Ly TIL that the United States has offered to purchase Greenland from Denmark twice, once in 1946 and again in 2019 due to its strategic location in the Arctic, the U.S. also occupied the island during WW2 from 1940-45 after the fall of Denmark and constructed Thule Air Base.
Y7dZP TIL parts of eastern Oregon, in mountain time, are one time zone away from parts of western Florida, in Central time. Because both states observe daylight saving time and the shift is not simultaneous, for one hour on one day of each year, the two areas are the exact same legal time.
b9GN0 TIL the 1987 film Wall Street is the only film to ever win both an Academy Award and a Golden Raspberry Award.
oBVW TIL Real estate agents used a business practice called “Blockbusting” in which they would buy a home in a white neighborhood, rent it to a black family, and buy the rest of the neighborhood at a discounted price after urging nervous white families to leave the neighborhood.
E6rx TIL: A group of scientists believe Dolphins should be treated as non-human “persons”, with their rights to life and liberty respected as they are self-aware