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TIL that the grand boulevards of Paris were built in the mid-1800s partly to make it harder for rioters and revolutionaries to barricade the streets like they had in earlier uprisings

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j6VKp TIL that Brooke Greenberg, who died in 2013, had ‘Syndrome X’, which made her remain physically and cognitively similar to a 1 year old, despite being 20 years old at the time of her death.
b5OQ TIL that Somaliland, a unrecognized but self-declared state in Somalia, is relatively peaceful, holds democratic elections, and has a functioning government, unlike the rest of Somalia.
9YQdD The research argues that gravitational waves give off echoes which, if confirmed, would prove that black holes don't exist and are, in fact, wormholes.
XEWnQ TIL that Austrian architect, Eduard van der Nüll, decided to null himself by committing suicide after learning that Emperor Franz Joseph said he didn’t like the opera house Nüll built. Later Emperor Franz felt awful & never said anything bad about art or architecture again.
JYlM1 TIL in WW2 a female feudal lord took control over 275 Nazis to force them to fix up her island after German occupation ended in Sark