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nZRW TIL that in 2009 armed robbers used a helicopter to abseil onto the roof of a cash depot in Sweden. The cash was dropped into a local lake where it was picked up boat. To deter police the robbers used caltrops on local roads and fake IED’s on the police helicopters to keep them grounded.
a8w0o TIL Adolf Hitler was not actually a "Hitler" (Heidler). His father, Alois, was the illegitimate child of Maria Anna Schicklgruber, who later married a Johann Georg Heidler. The Heidler family raised the boy, with his baptismal record later being annotated by a priest to rename him Alois Heidler.
R5Bk7 TIL that, at one point in time, the Habsburg monarchy (predecessor of Austria-Hungary) occupied the territory of today's Belgium.
nWmxd TIL Martin Luther King Jr. And Richard Nixon were both offered roles in Advise & Consent (1962). King made a press release saying he would not be in the film. Nixon turned down the offer over technical errors in the script.
1ox7 TIL 1994 American-born Israeli Baruch Goldstein, opened fire on unarmed Palestinian Muslims praying inside the Ibrahimi Mosque, killing 29,wounding 125. Up until then Hamas had refused to attack civilian targets inside Israel, and the change in Hamas’ policy was a result of Goldstein’s massacre