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TIL: Tropical Islands Resort is a tropical water park located 50 kilometers south of Berlin. It is housed in a former airship hangar (the Aerium), the biggest free-standing hall in the world.

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VME8 TIL the English phrase “Gung-ho” is of Chinese origin (Kung ho). It entered the American lexicon in 1942 via an American general. The original meaning is “to work together.”
np4W TIL women lost her wedding ring for 16 years before finding it growing on a carrot in her garden.
ANObl TIL Chicory has been a historic substitute for coffee. Frederick the Great banned coffee in Prussia which led to the mass production of chicory by 1795 and the chicory drinks were common in Napoleonic France. Chicory drinks also became popular in Confederate states because of the Union blockade.
4XYZR TIL After the collapse of the Soviet Union; over 50% of the nuclear fuel used in America reactors from 1993-2013 came from demilitarized Soviet-era nukes in Russia. The program was called "Megatons to Megawatts" and over 20,000+ warheads were purchased
wLoZo The numbers tell the story: Of the 648 people killed by lightning in the U.S. from 1995 to 2008, 82 percent were male. And as much as we were hoping to uncover a biological cause—extra iron in the male cranium, perhaps, or the conductive properties of testosterone—it turns out men are... just kind of stupid. “Men take more risks in lightning storms,” says John Jensenius, a lightning safety expert with the National Weather Service.