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TIL Porsche Makes a $2,100 Hookah called the, "2.1 Shisha."

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ZYAo TIL during WWII, Bill Tutte cracked the German Lorenz cipher using nothing more than a pen and paper, and having never seen the machine, after the Germans accidentally sent the same message twice. It is described as one the the greatest intellectual feats of the 20th Century.
6VoJ TIL that Carlos Hathcock, USMC in Vietnam, crawled inch by inch, 1500 yards for 72hours straight to assassinate an NVA General, narrowly escaping being bitten by a viper, and almost being stepped on by a NVA soldier. He successfully completed the mission, and escaped the same way he had entered.
eOwJ TIL: Finlands current president survived 2004 tsunami in Thailand by climbing a utility pole with his son.
p85XQ TIL despite ancient Rome being one of the most powerful empires and using many modern financial techniques some of which are still being used today, Rome was a mainly agrarian economy with arelatively small GDP
p8L0Z TIL Blind people don’t suffer from schizophrenia