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TIL of Georg Elser, the man who missed killing Hitler by 13 minutes

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yPnJ TIL the average citizen of Liechtenstein doesn’t even lock their door because crime in the country is so low. The last murder was 10 years ago (as of 2007).
akML TIL Denmark has ‘Fix Rooms’ that Give Drug Users A Safe Haven to use
x6OKB TIL that in 2011, a woman sued P. Diddy for 1 Trillion Dollars, claiming he was behind the 9/11 Attacks, and was the father of her child.
M1Y8 TIL that thanks to CERN, we now know that every atom in the Universe could be undone in an instant by a simple, unpredictable, unstoppable event: a quantum tunnel causing a phase-shift in the Higgs field.
eV6g TIL the Yugoslav army used microwave ovens to fool the NATO. Missiles would home in on any strong source of radio emission in the 400-10000 MHz range, exactly the range of household microwave ovens. In the next days, NATO pilots bombed microwave ovens placed in empty fields instead of Serbian tanks