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TIL During WWII Hitler ordered the British town of Blackpool be spared from bombing as he intended it to be his personal holiday resort after Germany had won the war

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ANQBn TIL: The first recorded Olympic champion was a cook named Coroebus, who won the stadion race in the ancient Olympics in 776 BC. The stadion race was a sprint of about 200 meters and was the only event in the first Olympic Games.
p8VDN TIL of the 2009 Satellite Collision: the first time two satellites collided at hypervelocity
JY6ak TIL Stephen Colbert’s father and 2 brothers died in a plane crash when he was 10. His improv teacher told him “you gotta learn to love the bomb” and as a result, years later he came to realize “I love the thing that I most wish had not happened.”
VMlb0 TIL about Mill Ends Park, the world's tiniest city park. It's a circle 2 feet (0.61 m) across in the median of a street in Portland, Oregon. It was intended as the site for a light pole, but when no light pole appeared, someone planted flowers instead. It was named an official city park in 1976.
dDY6K TIL that The Offspring’s “Pretty Fly For A White Guy” uses the same sample in the beginning as Def Leppard’s “Rock Of Ages”