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TIL the British could have stopped Hitler in 1938 by refusing to sign the Munich Agreement. The German Army had a coup against the Nazis all set up and ready to go, but Chamberlain screwed up by allowing Hitler to take a chunk of Czechoslovakia without a fight.

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gxNb TIL that after Bob Dylan offered The Beatles marijuana when he first met them in 1964 he was shocked to find out they weren’t regular smokers. Dylan had misheard the lyric ‘I can’t hide’ from 'I Want To Hold Your Hand’ as 'I get high’.
0w5kj TIL that Apollo 12 was an exercise in precision landing targeting, and succeeded in landing within walking distance of the Surveyor-3 probe that was launched a few years earlier.
RGP4 TIL: According to physics there may exist the opposite of a black hole which cannot be entered from the outside, although matter and light can escape from it. It is aptly named: a white hole.
p8g9Q TIL that the town of Palisade, Nevada staged gunfights, bank robberies, and Native American raids during the 1870's to attract tourists as the Transcontinental Railroad was built. The truth was known only by the town, and in reality, the town did not even have a sheriff due to its low crime rate.
GAmmg TIL that former F1 driver Romain Grosjean survived a fiery crash during the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix that split his car in half and wedged his cockpit (and himself) inside an Armco barrier. He survived with only burns to his finger as he tried to escape the burning mess.