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TIL that the rail system in Europe is so good because better rail systems mobilized armies better for WWI.

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Yp6vA TIL Indian novelist Anita Desai was born to a German mother and a Bengali businessman during a period when it was still unusual for an Indian man to marry a European woman. She grew up speaking Hindi with her neighbours, and only German at her home
D1PWv TIL Rainbows in the dark are in fact possible. They're called moonbows and occur when the moon is brighter than usual.
yaZe TIL on October 14th, 1944, doomed death camp prisoners at Sobibór managed to lure numerous high ranking Nazi officers into separate workshops, on the pretext of fitting them with new boots and clothes. They then hacked their defenseless captors to death with various tools and objects, one by one.
0w4eA TIL that Germany started paying World War I reparations in 1921 through Gold and Bonds, which was cancelled by Hitler when he came to power, but Germany resumed the payments again in 1953 post World War II, and kept making payments until October 2010 when the final one was made to officially end WWI
JLBj TIL there are two scores in golf that rank above an Eagle. They are an Albatross (3 under par) and a Condor (4 under par)