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TIL the bleeding of their fans saved the german Bundesligst Union Berlin from bankruptcy (by selling their blood donations)

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mxeao TIL about the Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße (AVUS) in Germany which opened in 1921 making it the oldest controlled-access highway in Europe, and until 1998 was also used as a racetrack!
5Y84n TIL the only country with no live chickens is Vatican City
B0Ge TIL a European engineer has created a liquid-filled, sun-tracking, energy-harvesting glass sphere is so powerful that it can not only collect solar rays as well as reflected lunar light. It can magnify this light by a factor of 10,000, turning illumination into heat energy.
GYwl4 TIL Some Native American tribes owned Slaves.
5VBp8 TIL that on the day he was assassinated at least nine of Kennedy’s Secret Service agents were recovering from an all night bender that ended at 5:00 AM