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TIL San Francisco artists introduced the first parklet in 2005; parking space(s) temporarily converted to a park to provide enhanced amenities such as green space or seating.

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wRv6 TIL of Julie D’Aubigny who was a 17th century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who fought and won at least ten life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest opera stage in the world and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.
x7P0 TIL Contrary to popular belief, the Egyptian Pyramids were not made by slaves but by paid laborers
oB6R7 TIL The Beatles' first use of studio trickery was on the first song on their first album, "I Saw Her Standing There." Their producer George Martin used an 'especially spirited' count-in from take 9 (“One, two, three, FOUR!”) and spliced it onto take 1, which was the take used on the album.
GA5Y7 TIL about Hans Spemann, a German embryologist who won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Medicine after he put his name on his student Hilde Mangold's dissertation. She discovered embryonic induction, one of the first steps toward cloning, but died in 1924.
b6ZR4 TIL of the Order of Malta Passport. It's the rarest passport in the world and is only issued to a few hundred people.