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TIL the Archbishop of Manila from 1974-2003 was called Cardinal Sin.

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6DL8 TIL that a German lieutenant, Friedrich Lengfeld, was killed by a land mine while attempting to rescue a wounded American soldier during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in WWII. The Americans erected a monument in his honor; the only American monument placed in any German military cemetery.
rJP4 TIL the “Loony Gas Building” was the name given to an old Standard Oil plant in 1924 after every single man who worked there was hospitalized for insanity… 5 of which died. The plant was manufacturing a new, breakthrough product: leaded gasoline additive.
mAov TIL: Many German beer names include the word ‘Hell’, meaning pale, and the place they are from. There is a pale lager from Austria called 'Fucking Hell’.
pYM1Q TIL your eyes rotate torsionally in their sockets durring head tilt and its not just post processing by our brain!
KeL6 TIL that Google has invested over $500 million in a secretive startup company called Magic Leap, who aims to release retinal display VR devices.