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TIL Germans refer to cell phones as 'handys'
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TIL there was an elevator that has no doors and never stops. It was named a Paternoster, mostly found in Europe, and were banned in the 70s due to safety reasons.
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TIL about bugchasing, the act of intentionally seeking out HIV through sexual activity
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TIL: Timothy Dexter was an eccentric businessman known for his improbably successful investments. He was fooled to send bed warmers to the West Indies (hot), but sold them as ladles, he exported stray cats to the Caribbean who used them to kill rats, etc. He also told people his wife was a ghost.
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TIL that in 2001, Mark Rich received a presidential pardon after refusing to pay $48 million in taxes. He had made substantial donations to the president’s wife’s political campaign. President Carter called it the most disgraceful pardon in US history.
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TIL- One of Napoleon’s original 18 Marshals of France possibly faked his execution and escaped to the United States.