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TIL in 1941 Harry Truman said “if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious in any circumstances.”

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wL1D7 TIL that a the Netherlands supposedly declared war on the Isles of Scilly (off the southwestern coast of Cornwall, England) in 1651, and essentially forgot about it until a treaty was signed 335 years later, in 1986. Not a single shot was ever fired.
n5bo TIL that in the Spring of 1976, groundskeepers at Anaheim stadium discovered hundreds of marijuana plants growing in the outfield, apparently left by thousands of Who fans who had attended a concert there in the offseason and scattered the seeds everywhere. Angels in the outfield indeed…
WkKr8 TIL about a Kiek in de Kök. An artillery tower in Tallinn, Estonia, built in 1475. It gained the name from the ability of tower occupants to see into kitchens of nearby houses.
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