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TIL Hitler’s plan for a rebuilt Berlin included the “People’s Dome”, a hall so big that if it were occupied at capacity, “the condensed breath of the [180,000] people would have accumulated in the dome and caused a rainfall”

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yVPka TIL the tallest mountain in our solar system is Olympus Mons, a volcano on Mars that stands 22 km (14 miles) high, almost three times the height of Mount Everest.
RV56 TIL the Soviet Union built the world’s first laser tank. (x-post from /r/TankPorn).
jjJj TIL A statue of Queen Victoria was moved one inch on its plinth by a German bomb in 1940. It was otherwise unharmed.
16ppO TIL that the ancient fabric called Dhaka Muslin from Bengal was the most valuable fabric on the planet. It was so transparent that English women wearing it was accused of appearing in public naked. Currently no one alive knows how to make this fabric due to the exploitation of East India Company.
OGMd6 TIL that Margaret Ann Neve was the first recorded female supercentenarian and the second validated human to reach the age of 110. She was also the first proven individual whose life spanned three centuries, having been born in 1792 and died in 1903.