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TIL Germany built huge artillery during WW1 where each shot would wear out the gun so much that shells had increasing diameter and had to fired in the right order

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loWKK TIL a Confederate soldier named John Stith Pemberton got stabbed in the chest in battle, and afterwards became hooked on morphine. He was working on a cure for his painkiller addiction when he accidentally mixed it with carbonated water and invented Coca-Cola.
78Or TIL Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for portraying Hannibal Lecter in Silence of Lambs, with only 16 mins of screen time (14% of the films length).
W7OnB TIL that 1 WTC is 1776 ft tall
9YOM6 TIL about Duane Syndrome, a congenital condition in which one eye can not move horizontally while the other eye is unimpaired
AZBw TIL that Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is a current bestseller in India, and many Indians believe him to be a more respectable role-model than Gandhi.