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TIL the Army secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the ocean, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets

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4k8Za TIL 18th century painter Theodoor Wilkens was sketching the ruins of an town in Rome with a crowd watching him. The crowd's movement on the edge of the town caused a building to collapse. The crowd concluded that he was practicing witchcraft and he had to storm out of the city.
5Y7QD TIL Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian and was often distressed by images of animal cruelty and suffering
mWDy TIL that Voodoo Doughnut, a doughnut shop in Portland, used to sell doughnuts glazed in NyQuill and others packed with Tums and Pepto until local health officials ordered them to stop.
a8BJL TIL that European Starlings can mimic human speech
xbp5 TIL of a remarkable gypsy (Sinti) boxer in Nazi Germany, who after beating an ‘Aryan,’ was threatened by the Nazis into throwing his next match. He came to that match with dyed blonde hair and whiteface and lasted five rounds. His name: Johann Trollmann