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TIL. Inhabitants of Hamburg, Germany are known as Hamburgers
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TIL that firing squads would always have one gun shooting a blank. This ensures that no one in the group is able to know for sure which of them fired the fatal round, deterring some of the guilt.
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TIL Ludwig van Beethoven, who was almost completely deaf, discovered Bone Conduction. Beethoven found a way to hear the sound of the piano through his jawbone by attaching a rod to his piano and clenching it in his teeth.
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TIL the largest billboard in the world is 6,260 square meters [Larger than an NFL football field]
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TIL In 2014, an Arizona man escaped prison to meet with his girlfriend on Valentine's Day. The man crawled past razor wire, scaled two fences and made his way to a bar about 10 miles away.
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TIL that watermelon became a stereotype for black people because free black slaves grew and ate it, and it became a symbol of their freedom.