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TIL since 2002, there's been a German themed village housing German ex-pats and Korean spouses in South Korea which even hosts annual Oktoberfests

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4XRYX TIL about Dewey Beard, the last Native American veteran of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn. In 1892, his family was killed by the US Army at the Wounded Knee Massacre, and he was shot. In 1942, the Department of War confiscated his land to form a firing range. He died in poverty in 1955.
E1nJX TIL that the ancient Romans used concrete with volcanic ash mixed in, which allowed for much stronger crack-resistant concrete
WkopN TIL of Conrad Veidt, the man who played the villain in Casablanca, who gave up a career as one of the highest-paid actors in Germany in '33. When forced to declare his race for the government he wrote "Juden" despite not being Jewish, because his wife was and he wouldn't renounce her.
OGnY TIL that in the 1960s Goodyear Tire manufactured illuminated tires in different colors.
KOv1E TIL there's no archaeological evidence that the siege of Masada ended with the mass suicide of its defenders.