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TIL that there is a Counterfeit Museum of Paris, where they display the most impressive and accurate knock-offs of popular goods.

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WkMA9 TIL that it took 87 years to build Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, from 1163-1250.
6EAYY TIL: While cleaning up after an art exhibit in 1959, a group of janitors set out to prove they could make art that was just as good as what was on display. Their snuck-in piece of discarded scrap metal won a ribbon for merit.
8anWK TIL that US president George H.W. Bush narrowly avoided being eaten by Japanese soldiers during World War II in late 1944 when he was 20 years old. It is known as Chichijima incident.
jNxdj TIL of that time Peter Jackson tried to get Lee to scream as he was stabbed, only to be corrected. "Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody's stabbed in the back?" Lee said he asked Jackson. "Because I do."
LQgld TIL The biological father of Martin Gore, founding member of Depeche Mode and its musical driving force, and key figure in the New Wave, Synth Pop, and Alternative Dance music genres, is African American. Gore himself only learned when he turned 30 and has since visited him in the American south.