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TIL Alice's Restaurant Massacree is mostly a true story
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TIL that cellophane is not made from plastic but is produced from plants - using regenerated cellulose derived from organic materials including wood, cotton and hemp.
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TIL: about Exercise Tiger, a large scale practice run months before for the D-Day invasion. Friendly fire from communication errors and attacks from Nazi E-Boats resulted in the deaths of 749 men. Eisenhower ordered that all servicemen be sworn to secrecy and was publicly unknown until the 1980s
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TIL the longest escalator in the western hemisphere is at Wheaton station in Wheaton, Maryland (DC Area)
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TIL in 1965, the city of Amsterdam started the White Bicycle Plan that provided free public bicycles for anyone to go from place to place. Within a month, most of the bikes were stolen or found in canals.
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TIL that Canada didn’t gain FULL sovereignty from the UK until 1982.