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TIL that Heinrich Himmler's daughter Gudrun Burwitz died in 2018

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Y7kEr TIL One of the only pieces of Hitler's dream reconstruction of Berlin as Germania is an enormous concrete cylinder in the Tiergarten neighborhood. It's called the Schwerbelastungskörper which translates as "heavy load-bearing body." It was to test the load-bearing capability of the ground.
xVNVg TIL about Ghana's Dancing Pallbearers. The story behind the famous dancing funeral meme.
R784 TIL That Vermont was its own republic from 1777 to 1791. It applied to join the US and was denied, then tried to join Quebec and failed. They were finally accepted as the 14th State in 1791.
QJgQ9 TIL that "twitchers" are committed bird-watchers who travel long distances to see new species. They have their own jargon, including "nemesis" for a bird that has eluded them despite multiple attempts to see it, and "plastic" for a bird that escaped from captivity rather than being genuinely wild.
jNbKp TIL: Jaywalking was made a crime, primarily due to car makers wanting to shift blame of accidents to pedestrians, instead of drivers. This was done to help prevent the image of the car as being a dangerous luxury, which would have hurt sales.