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TIL when the Eiffel Tower was proposed, anglers in Paris feared that the tower would discharge lightning into the Seine and kill all the fish

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WkKNY TIL: In a promotional Volkswagon experiment, one randomized group of subway commuters was given the choice of regular stairs and the escalator while a second group could choose between musical "piano stairs" and an escalator. The piano stairs convinced 66% more people than normal to choose stairs.
xVxvg TIL that for a while in the 2010s, you could rent the country of Liechtenstein on Airbnb for $70,000 a night. This included hanging out with the monarch, temporary currency, the ability to rename streets and a key to country.
ADx4d TIL of Toupie Lowther, the first openly lesbian woman in sport, who toured the tennis tournaments of Europe in her open-top Mercedes-Benz, had a science degree from the Sorbonne, was a fencer, a practitioner of jujitsu, and assembled a mutlinational all-woman ambulance unit she led to the WWI front.
EgVl0 TIL that only one actor has been in 2 out of the 3 films that have won 11 Oscars: Bernard Hill, who played Captain Edward Smith in Titanic (1997) and Theoden, King of Rohan in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). No one is 3 for 3, either, as the third film is Ben-Hur (1959).
D1aZp TIL that Brazil has more Lebanese people than Lebanon