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TIL: Flexible fridge magnets are magnetized in rows of N/S pairs, which you can mess or fix with strong magnets

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1bn4 TIL The French tried to counter attack Germany in 1939, but were repulsed by “The silent soldier”…“a definitive weapon of the war”. New German mines that would fire themselves out of the ground before going off, wounding not just the soldier, but everybody else around them, as well.
1610D TIL that the assigned telephone code/country code for the Vatican City is +379, but this code is not used. Instead, the Vatican City uses the country code +39 of Italy
R57Ja TIL the RAF and USAAF dropped 3,316,000 magnesium incendiary bombs on Munich alone during WWII, 4 bombs for every inhabitant.
VjRQ TIL that in 2007, the First Mount Olive Free Will Baptist Church purchased a $150,000 Bentley, neglected to pay their $12,000 water bill, and defaulted on their $1.5 million mortgage. The church was struck by lightning and the subsequent fire completely destroyed the building.
kJKx7 TIL that Gandhi (1982) holds the Guinness World Record for the most extras in a single scene, featuring over 300K people. Out of these, 200K were volunteers and 94K were paid actors.