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TIL infamous NSDAP Member Herman Göring kept Lions in his house like a Nazi Tiger King

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7rrWZ TIL the wreck of the Titanic is so deep in the ocean that there's very little oxygen so it doesnt really rust. Instead it is being slowly consumed by anaerobic bacteria (a kind that doesn't need oxygen to live). Within a few hundred years, a pile of iron ore will be all that remains of the titanic.
78A9X TIL that electric cars are not a modern invention. In the early 1900s, electric vehicles accounted for about a third of all vehicles on the road and were popular due to their quiet and clean operation, especially in urban areas.
Jv8v TIL that Chinese security forces killed a large number of Uyghur dissidents in a July 2014 incident, 96 according to the Chinese and 2,000 according to the Uyghurs, and the Chinese government suppressed any independent reporting of it
78bGZ TIL Admiral Byrd is the only person to have three ticker-tape parades in New York City (in 1926, 1927, and 1930) given in his honor. He was the first person to fly over both the North and South Poles.
NXwbP TIL that I learned that "Passamaquoddy" is not just a fictional town from the movie "Pete's Dragon", but also the name Native American/First Nations people who live in northeastern North America.