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lonrK TIL a farmer hid the construction and existence of a 4-bedroom castle under a huge pile of hay bales for 6 years. When he thought he’d outlasted the statute of limitations, he unveiled it to the public, the city council found out, and immediately ordered its destruction.
Oo9P7 TIL that in the 1970s, an unemployed haulage contractor named Arthur Hickey proposed to turn the Titanic into an iceberg using liquid nitrogen in order to raise her to the surface. It was calculated that this would have required half a million tons of liquid nitrogen.
MeYm0 TIL that Adolf Hitler believed that he was sexually attractive to women and wished to exploit this for political gain by remaining single, as he felt marriage would decrease his appeal. The German people were unaware of Hitler & Eva Braun's relationship until after the war
neVeB TIL Steven Spielberg did not storyboard the D-Day invasion scene in "Saving Private Ryan" in order to make things more chaotic and unpredictable. In the original script, the entire invasion is covered in only seven pages.
5KRn TIL that in WWI, the Germans converted liner SMS Cap Trafalgar into an armed merchant cruiser, which they then disguised as the British liner HMS Carmania. Off the coast of Brazil, Trafalgar was attacked and sunk by a British ship. That ship was also an armed merchant cruiser; the real HMS Carmania.