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TIL Pavlopetri in Greece is the oldest underwater city ever discovered

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grY5X TIL that in January 1917, German Minister Arthur Zimmermann sent a coded telegram to the German ambassador in Mexico to try and persuade Mexico to attack the US. The British intercepted and decoded it, then forwarded to the US. That telegram was a big factor in the US entering World War I.
xwX0 TIL: Stephen King didn’t tell his kids bedtime stories; he made them tell him stories.
Yp57Z TIL Tumbleweeds aren't native to America. They arrived through a contaminated flax shipment from Russia and are reportedly very tasty as a boiled vegetable or in salads.
jwkR TIL that an extinct bird called Rodrigues Solitaire had strange knob-like balls on its wings. These balls were used by the bird as a deadly weapon to defend territory and its mate, and made a noise like thunder in the distance
XXPj TIL Plot E, a hidden Cemetery,that does not officially exist is where the “the dishonorable dead” from WWII are buried,94 men who murdered or raped women,children and men during or after the war, and 1 who was a deserter.