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TIL East Germany produced almost unbreakable "superfest" drinking glasses in order to not waste resources. After reunification production was shut down as no manufacturer had any interest in the technology, or in a product which would “slow down” sales

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jZwn TIL they finally finished burying the British Empire’s First World War dead in 1938. One year later, the Second World War would begin.
R7JjQ TIL twins Grace and Virginia Kennedy (b. 1970) were often left alone with their German speaking grandmother as children and as a result developed their own secret language. They used it til they were about 8 when they were forbidden to by their father. They called each other "Poto" and "Cabengo".
loB5N TIL that Mark Taimanov, a Russian chess Grandmaster, after losing 6-0 to Bobby Fischer in 1971's World Chess Championship Candidates quarterfinal, got his salary and his ability to leave the country taken away, aswell as being censored in the press because the Russian government was so embarrassed.
oBb07 TIL the wreckage of the train and bus from the hit movie The Fugitive were left in place in North Carolina at the request of the Smoky Mountain Railway, which sees them as a tourist attraction.
oBkvA TIL in the 1792 Presidential election, George Washington got 100.0% of the vote. Which was only 28,579 votes.