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TIL: Hitler had a problem with uncontrollable flatulance

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99K6 TIL In 2005 the Mexican Army crossed into US territory for the first time since WWII, to help feed victims of Hurricane Katrina
l7oLN TIL about the "Inventio Fortunata," a lost book that described the North Pole as a magnetic island surrounded by a giant whirlpool and four continents, believed to be written in the 14th century. Its influence on maps of the Arctic region persisted into the 16th and 17th centuries.
epgpg TIL The first reference to files in the context of computing was in 1940 when a computer function was stored in a “file of punched cards”. The idea of a file system that managed virtual "files" on a storage device was introduced in 1961 by the Burroughs MCP and the MIT Compatible Time-Sharing System
LknOZ TIL In Spain, a municipality was named Castrillo Matajudíos ("Jew-killer Camp") from 1627 to 2015. Matamoros (Moor killer), however, remains a common place name, surname, and even the name of several businesses in Spanish-speaking countries.