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TIL that in 1945 during WWII American soldiers and Nazis teamed up to save a bunch of purebred horses held by the Nazis

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oBOQW TIL about a drink called the New Jersey Turnpike which calls for the server to ring out the mat found on the floor of a bar into a shot glass and is given to the loser of a bar bet.
rwB1 TIL that the largest stadium in the world, Rŭngnado May First Stadium, is located in Pyongyang, North Korea. In the late 90’s it was used as a venue to publicly burn several army generals that were implicated in an assassination attempt on Kim Jong-Il.
epQN6 TIL about the Inerter - a mechanical two-terminal analog of an electrical capacitor
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