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TIL on Black Friday 2013, Cards Against Humanity had an “Anti-Sale” with increased prices, and still had a sales spike and maintained its best-selling status on Amazon.

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loQ6K TIL that the United States hired former Wehrmacht Chief of Staff Franz Halder to write their official history of the Eastern Front of WWII to downplay Nazi war crimes in order to make the Soviets appear as bad as possible and was even awarded by the American government for his work
Ooo67 TIL months before D-Day British Commandos drove a ship full of explosives on a delayed timer into strategically vital shipyard. Most were captured but 5 walked back to Spain. During interrogation, a German Officer told one of the Commandos the damage would be fixed in weeks, right before detonation.
bxa TIL 97% of girls in Egypt have had their clitoris cut off.
P1jBZ TIL the Climax mine, the largest molybdenum mine in the world, was originally sold for $40,000 in 1918 (~$800,000 today) because the prospector had no idea what the mineral was. The mine would later go on to supply 3/4 of the world's molybdenum, being an important alloy in jet engines.
EgpLp TIL about pilot Robert Moriarty, who flew his plane under the Eiffel Tower in 1984. When reporters asked why he did it, Moriarty said it was “just for fun”.