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TIL that Hitler's 3-mile-long abandoned Nazi resort is transforming into a luxury getaway to be completed by 2022

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KOwL4 TIL the Greeks invented "Worry Beads" (kompoloi) as a tool to destress. While many cultures and faiths created beads for religious purposes (Catholic Rosaries or Buddhist Mala for example) these beads aren't related to a religious practice. Greeks carry and play with them to relax or fidget.
DQERg TIL: that Laz Alondo lost 40 pounds for season 4 of The Boys".
j6k9j TIL Anne Frank’s father Otto earned 2 Iron Crosses fighting at the Somme and Cambrai in WW1 before surviving Auschwitz
Oo7De TIL about the History of Central Asia
Brd5k TIL that the biblical books of Psalms and Proverbs are likely to be copied from an older Egyptian text called "Instruction of Amenemope"