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TIL the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs released 10 billion times as much energy as the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima

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dv8E TIL basketball legend Tim Duncan was a teenage champion swimmer in the Virgin Islands. When Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island’s only Olympic-sized swimming pool in 1989, Duncan was forced to swim in the ocean and he quickly lost his enthusiasm for swimming because of his fear of sharks
J4aj TIL that in 1939, 20,000 people attended a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
BvKx TIL during WW2, German soldiers disguised themselves as Americans in order to cause confusion among Allied troops. The paranoia was so great that at one point British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery had the tires of his car shot out, was dragged out of the car, and was detained in a barn for hours.
YN1r TIL the head of the Nazi SA “brownshirt” paramilitary group was gay, appointed other gays to prominent Nazi SA positions & was so close to Hitler, he was the only person who called him by nicknames like “Adi” instead of “mein fuhrer”
xOm1 TIL archaeologists had found a ring inside a 9th century Viking grave that is inscribed with the phrase ‘for Allah’.