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TIL the Empire State Building’s spire was originally designed to be a mooring mast for Zeppelin airships

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oB9kW TIL Madam C. J. Walker was the first black businesswoman to find wild success aiming her company at creating hair care products and instruction for black women with her Anti-Kink Tonic. She was worth $8.7m in today's dollars when she died, making her the wealthiest black woman in the US at the time.
e0D56 TIL during WW2, captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in Trent Park to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
GAJJj TIL that, in 1933 the Canadian government intentionally destroyed 15 tonnes of documentation regarding residential school victims
M7RvA TIL that they’re called hamburgers because the term comes from Hamburg in Germany, where a minced beef style dish was first created
DQnpp TIL that fossilized lightning or fulgurite exisits and is formed when powerful lightning bolts discharge through the ground, which melts and fuses any nearby soil, sand, rock and organic debris into a singular metallic-looking lump.