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TIL of the secret bunker in Rothenstein, Germany where billionaires hide away in a crisis - luxury apartments, a swimming pool, movie theater, pub - all in an underground bunker designed to withstand a nuclear war... or pandemic.

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LQ0ad TIL 5 days after being drafted by the Atlanta Braves in 1984, Tom Glavine was selected by the L.A. Kings in the fourth round -- ahead of two future hockey Hall of Famers Brett Hull and Luc Robitaille
BARe TIL A German doctor for the mentally-ill King of Denmark, managed to become the “de facto” regent and instituted many progressive reforms between 1771 to 1772 including the abolition of torture, censorship of the press and ban of slave trade in Danish colonies. He was later executed and dismembered.
b91P7 TIL the PX symbol commonly seen on pill bottles in American Film/TV is actually Rx, used for prescriptions
RGm4 TIL that when Napoleon returned to France from Elba, he approached some of the first troops sent to arrest him and opened his coat, “If any of you will shoot his Emperor, here I am.” They joined him instead.
1pr8 TIL in 1994, Howard Stern talked a caller out of jumping off the George Washington Bridge as a nation listened