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TIL A residential developer planned to create a community of mini-castles in Mudurnu, Turkey. Following economic turmoil, the community now sits as an abandoned town with hundreds of identical, half-finished mini-castles.

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4k085 TIL, immediately after WWII, the U.S Government took 1,600 Nazi scientists back to the U.S. This secret operation was called “Operation Paperclip”. Many of these ex-Nazis scientists went to work for NASA. The most famous ex-Nazi scientist was Wernher von Braun.
0BmN TIL that in pre Civil War South Carolina, U.S. congressmen were required to own at least 10 slaves to run for office.
Wk0gd TIL During the course of baseball game, a fan asked another for a knife so he could sharpen his pencil. Just as he leaned over to take the knife, a foul ball struck him on the hand and drove the blade into chest the chest of a man between them. He bled to death within moments.
jNMov There's such a thing as too much sleep, but it's usually a sign of something else.
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