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TIL Radio Caledonia was a Nazi run WW2 propaganda station that aired in Scotland 1940-1942. Broadcast from Germany, Goebbels hoped it would turn listening Scots against the English. The message that Scotland would be vastly preferable to "an England run by a war-mongering Churchill" didn't fly,
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TIL that after his wife died because she couldn’t easily access medical attention, an Indian man spent 22 years cutting through the mountain that separated his village from the nearest medical center. The finished path shortened the necessary travel distance by 40 km. He used nothing but a chisel.
rbky
TIL George Washington inoculated his troops against smallpox, reducing a 17% death rate from the disease down to 1%
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Til there are more then 20 Sovereign states in the North America
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TIL: There are 2 versions of Girl Scout Cookies. They employ 2 different bakers for their cookies, ABC Bakers & Little Brownie Bakers (the cookies they make look differently, taste differently &, in some cases, even have different names). Where you live determines which type of cookie you will get!