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TIL that during the Battle of Mons in WWI, soldiers reported seeing Angels that allegedly saved the British Army from destruction.

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9w8kM TIL that in the 1920s a German architect had a plan to drain the Mediterranean sea . The plan called for building a gargantuan dam across the straits of Gibraltar . if successful, this new land connecting Europe and Africa together would have been called Atlantropa .
4kMJ6 TIL of Alberto Fujimori: a Japanese man that was president of Peru from 1990 to 2000. When elected, he proceeded to implement neoliberal reforms, carry out a self-coup, and dissolve congress to give himself extraordinary powers.
KYKO6 TIL Annie Oakley could have stopped WWI
M7kmm TIL about the first ever treatment for vitiligo. it can actually restore pigmentation.
5YbLr TIL: In some Hispanic cultures their version of the tooth fairy is a rat called "Ratón Pérez" or El Ratón de Los Dientes