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TIL there's a train station and housing estate in Berlin named Uncle Tom's Cabin

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LQeEp TIL about the 1822 massacre on the Greek island of Chios by Ottoman empire troops that killed up to 50,000 people
RdK8 TIL in 2011, James Franco put his name behind a project called “The Museum of Non-visible Art”. A woman paid $10,000 for a non-visible piece called “Fresh Air”.
8e1Ka TIL Conch is pronounced ‘Konk’. Thought it was ‘Conch’ this whole time.
LkPxV TIL left handed people were retrained to write with their right hands in certain schools, even into the 1970s. This caused a stutter for some of the students.
xVyb TIL a graduate student mistook two unproved theorems in statistics that his professor wrote on the chalkboard for a homework assignment. He solved both within a few days.