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TIL That Superman as Clark Kent was 4-F during WWII for poor vision because he read the Eye chart in the next room.

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XE7w8 TIL there is a hotel called the Greenbrier in West Virginia. A bunker was built under the hotel in the late 50s to house Congress in the event of a nuclear war. It was outted by the Washington Post and subsequently closed. It's now open for tours.
lNkr TIL that in Auschwitz, an SS guard fell in love with a Jewish prisoner. He saved her life multiple times and in return, she testified on his behalf during his post-war trial.
aAbo TIL The only two incidents in history where a plane had crashed on land and neither the cockpit voice nor flight data recorders were found, happened on 9/11.
Bxmy TIL Michael Jackson’s father, talent mogul Joe Jackson, attempted to use the press conference marking his son’s death to promote his new hip hop recording project
7L6L TIL Demand for quinoa in Western nations has pushed up prices to such an extent that poorer people in Peru and Bolivia, where quinoa is from, can no longer afford their staple crop