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TIL Great Britain has invaded 90% of the world’s countries

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YpAKv TIL that there were 2,500 bombings in the US during the 1970s. In one instance, a Puerto Rican group bombed a cinema, but when police ordered everyone to leave, the audience angrily refused because they wanted to see the movie. However, these bombings are largely forgotten today.
VB6oZ Today I learned that cars in the early 1900s didn’t have windshield wipers. Drivers had to stop every so often to wipe the glass with a cloth—until Mary Anderson invented the wiper and pushed it to market despite all the doubts. A lot of car manufacturers thought it would distract drivers!
XO16 TIL that when Hitler forced the French to surrender during WW2 he did so on the site where the Germans were forced to surrender in WW1. Not only that but he found the same train carriage used in WW1 and forced the French to sign a surrender in that same train carriage.
pYQv4 TIL of the ill-fated Zambian space programme in the 60's. It was led by Sergeant Edward Nkoloso. Afronauts would be rolled down a hill in a oil drum to simulate space. The goal was to have Zambia land on the Moon and Mars, convert Martians to Christianity and have Zambia become a interstellar power
Y7QJ7 TIL that the 1982 horror film Swamp Thing was based on the DC character of the same name who was created in 1972