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TIL Imperial Germany had made plans to invade the US between 1897 and 1903 just to gain some Carribean colonies.

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awMWo TIL about the cookiecutter shark. The name refers to its feeding habit of gouging round plugs, as if cut with a cookie cutter, out of larger animals. Marks made by cookiecutter sharks have been found on a wide variety of marine life, as well as on submarines, undersea cables, and even human bodies!
E1W5o TIL Winston Churchill gave his painting of the-Tower-of-Koutoubia-Mosque as a gift to President Roosevelt. It is now owned by the actor Bradd Pitt who purchased it for a world-record sum.
VBm18 TIL A group of well trained athletes were given placebo steroids, and they showed the same results in 8 weeks as would be expected with a low dose of real steroids
YLEZ TIL that, while working for Sports Illustrated, Kurt Vonnegut was assigned to write a piece about a race horse jumping over a fence and attempting to escape. He stared at a blank piece of paper all morning then wrote, “The horse jumped over the fucking fence,” and then left.
b6jkQ TIL that 37 US states allow children to legally marry, some down to age 10.