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TIL The only known armed Nazi military operation on North American soil was installation of Weather Station Kurt by a German u-boat team. It was accidentally discovered in 1977.

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Z8PVv TIL of the Narco-Submarine, a partially and/or fully submersible craft used by cartels to smuggle drugs while avoiding radar and sonar
KYYDJ TIL in a four year span, road debris caused more than 200,000 car crashes, resulting in approximately 39,000 injuries and more than 500 deaths in the US.
d1l7 TIL Indian Soldiers were abandoned to die as per the official orders at Dunkirk but Colonel Ashdown of The Royal Indian Army Service Corps disobeyed the order and saved the Indian Soldiers for which he was court martialled.
l7JE7 TIL that Nazis built (1941) and later beautified (1944) a model ghetto in Theresienstadt in preparation for a delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross to give the visitors a positive impression.
4Pda TIL the “navel” in a navel orange is actually a second, conjoined twin orange within the same peel