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TIL that Hugo Boss used to make uniforms for the Nazis

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kJv85 TIL that two days before singer Nina Simone died, she learned that she would be awarded an honorary degree by the Curtis Institute of Music, the music school that had refused to admit her as a student at the beginning of her career.
g8Qb TIL Ernest Hemingway was among the first to liberate Paris during WWII BUT he went straight to his favorite bar at the Ritz, reclaimed it from Luftwaffe and spent the next week drunk
9mJG TIL: USAF Project Thor (aka “Rods from God”) consisted of dropping telephone pole sized tungsten rods from space. This would provide global strike faster than an ICBM, be nearly impossible to defend against, and would hit the earth at Mach 10 causing the devastation of a tactical nuclear warhead.
lNZV TIL that many German monks would sustain themselves on nothing but beer and water for the entire 40 days of Lent.
eL86 TIL that the Dutch police have trained eagles to fight criminally driven drones