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TIL it’s illegal to take photographs of the Eiffel Tower at night.

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MaKB TIL that the creator of the floppy disk, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, would routinely almost drown himself in order to spur creativity.
Xy9k TIL Steve Harvey once gave a winning Family Feud contestant an additional $25k of his own money after later finding out the contestant was terminally ill and doing everything he could to support his family
XE08R TIL Actor Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz, Star Trek, MI:) once pretended to be kidnapped by aliens, tweeting he was going to check some noises in his attic, then disappearing from Twitter for 3 days. He re-appeared 5 mins after the time-of-day he "disappeared" & tweeted "everything's fine, nothing there".
VMppk TIL that owls can’t move their eyes in their sockets making their 180 degree neck turning necessary to see around them
xVwM1 TIL About the Cardiff Tower. Hidden in plain sight in a largely Jewish community just south of Beverly Hills, exists a working oil derrick, disguised to look like a Synagogue.