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TIL BBC News was broadcast to Nazi occupied Europe, with live Big Ben tolls. German physicists found a way to determine the weather conditions in London based on the bell tone, thus offering invaluable help to the Luftwaffe.

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LkovQ TIL in 1924, a Russian scientist started blood transfusion experiments, hoping to achieve eternal youth. After 11 blood transfusions, he claimed he had improved his eyesight and stopped balding. He died after a transfusion with a student suffering from malaria and TB (The student fully recovered).
j6EQj TIL that sex can clear out blocked noses
QeLE TIL that since 2000, the license plates of the District of Columbia (whose residents pay taxes to the federal government, but do not elect representatives or senators to congress) have featured the slogan “Taxation Without Representation”.
4XMob TIL that the most effective sniper in WWI was a Canadian First Nations soldier named Francis Pegahmagabow who killed 378 Germans soldiers and captured 300 more.
5V95B TIL Belgium is the only country in the world that flies an unconstitutional flag. The flag should be red, yellow and black, but in practice the order is reversed. Nobody has bothered correcting the constitution.