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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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rNY54 TIL that Metallica has a scholarship program called Metallica Scholars that has provided $4.1 million in grants to community colleges to support career and technical education programs. \m/
e0dpk TIL that during the 16th and 17th century the majority of people believed Birds of Paradise lived in the skies and fed only on air and dew.
eg8J TIL that Jamie and Adam (from Mythbusters) worked as visual technicians on the film Flubber (1996). Oh and Bill Nye was a science consultant, as well.
oR49L TIL the opening notes from the Mission Impossible theme song are Morse Code for "MI". BAH BAH (two dashes, M) da da (two dots, I)
9YvXr TIL: McDonald's used to have a mascot named Captain Crook who stole Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, as opposed to the Hamburglar's hamburger thievery.