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TIL there was an amusement park inside Paris from 1900 to 1934 called "Magic City", predating Luna Park by 9 years. It was also an LGBT heaven where meet-ups were presented as "disguised dancings" in order to evade vice squad.

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lE7K TIL that during the search for one of the girls Ariel Castro kidnapped a psychic told her mother that her daughter was dead and “in water”. The mother of the daughter was devastated and took down all flyers of her daughter and died in 2006 before her daughter was later found alive in 2013.
5VvNB TIL Daisy, well known for their "Red Ryder" BB gun from "A Christmas Story", was originally a windmill company. Their BB guns were promotional items for their windmills, which eventually became so popular that they ditched windmills altogether.
NXemQ TIL that John Wilkes Booth attended the hanging of abolitionist leader John Brown. Booth stood near the scaffold and afterwards expressed great satisfaction with Brown's fate, although he admired the condemned man's bravery in facing death stoically.
lPL5 TIL a company called Eidos is working on a mask that would allow you to enhance your hearing and vision to “superhuman” levels.
E1Q6x TIL "The Full Monty" originally refers to a full English breakfast. It was named for WWII British Army general Bernard Montgomery who, during the North African campaign, started every day with a full English breakfast.