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TIL of the very mysterious death of Edgar Allen Poe

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KOO96 TIL In 1995, artists Christo and Jean-Claude wrapped Berlin's Reichstag Building in aluminum colored fabric!
kOoQe TIL that a woman refused to board a lifeboat when the Titanic was sinking as she refused to be parted from her dog. Several days later, passengers on the SS Bremen passing by the wreckage in the water, saw the body of a woman tightly holding a large shaggy dog in her arms.
kJ7J1 TIL - In 1992, Indy Car racer Paul Tracy took pole by 1/1000 of a second from Fittipaldi, which caused him to crash his car into the fan camping area
E1v9p TIL when Consumer Reports tested the Olympic WaterGuard wood stain, the product was so bad that it "didn’t take to the wood at all.".
vP4oK TIL that women’s susceptibility to motion sickness increases or decreases depending on the day of the menstrual cycle