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TIL De Efteling amusement park encourages visitors to keep the park clean by offering Big Mouth trash bins that beg for paper trash, suck it out of your hand & say thank you

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Brm6D TIL exactly 57 years ago, JFK gave his Ich bin ein Berliner ("I am a Berliner") speech in the backdrop of the Berlin Wall. “Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in.”
v177K TIL that Whitney Houston's performance of The Star Spangled Banner - widely regarded as the greatest of all time - was not live, but pre-recorded. She sang into a dead microphone and audiences at home were fed the pre-taped track.
mxmXo TIL the Waters & Sons firm in 1868 developed a process for making boats out of paper. At the peak of their popularity, they built simple single-person boats to a 45-foot "pleasure barge," which could comfortably seat 23 people. In 1875 they became the "largest boat factory in the United States."
r1lw TIL a goat once killed his abusive owner in self-defense. The community rallied around the goat and saved its life.
e0LKg TIL in 2015 there was a duck in England, named Star, who liked wearing a bow tie, going to the pub with his owner and having a pint of beer.