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TIL that, as of today, the Berlin Wall has been gone for as long as it stood.

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4k8m5 TIL that Poppy flowers became associated with the military after a Canadian poet was inspired by a field of poppies near a mass grave in Belgium folliwing World War 1. The poppies grew there after the bombing and trench warfare churned up the soil, exposing dormant poppy seeds to the sunlight.
4xAo TIL that due to selective breeding watermelons, bananas, eggplants, carrots, corn and peach of centuries ago are virtually unrecognisable.
VMdg4 TIL the New York Jets have never beaten the Philadelphia Eagles (American football)
yVv5e TIL about Grace Annie Lockhart, the first woman in the British Empire to earn a bachelor’s degree
oVEo TIL John Chambers, the make-up artist portrayed by John Goodman in the movie Argo, not only won the CIA’s Intelligence Medal of Merit for his role in helping rescue American embassy personnel from Iran, he created the pointed ears worn by Leonard Nimoy as Spock in Star Trek.