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TIL Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the few major European cities with a Catholic Church, synagogue, mosque and Eastern Orthodox church in the same neighborhood

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pYWv4 TIL - Members of Forbes 30 under 30 have been arrested for frauds and scams collectively worth $18.5 billion.
J1JL4 TIL that the Hoover Dam contains enough concrete to build a two-lane road from San Francisco to New York.
WkZ8B TIL in 1922 Raymond DeWalt invented the Radial Arm Saw, with the first saw blade driven directly by a motor. Naming it the "Wonder-Worker," he then started the DeWalt company which still exists today. Once a versatile staple of home workshops, the Radial Arm Saw is in extremely limited use today.
R7Zll TIL Donald Duck is an extremely popular pop-icon in Germany, where you can buy his comics at most newsstands. In their version, Donald uses a highly sophisticated level of language and "many Germans credit him with having initiated them into the language of the literary classics".
9OPX TIL France had its own calendar for only 12 years starting in 1792. Each week had 10 days, each day 10 hours, each hour 100 minutes, and each minute 100 seconds.