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TIL in the 1970s a woman's sued San Francisco because a cable car accident turned her into a nymphomaniac. In 2015 her story was turned into a musical.

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5Y5Z9 TIL that the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor (age 97) says that what he witnessed in Europe still haunts him “every single day of his life.”
Oo4oY TIL There exists a non profit organization whose sole mission is to assure the six Apollo lunar landing sites are preserved and protected for posterity by having them included on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List
JbLm TIL In 1996, Rob Schneider established the Rob Schneider Music Foundation. The foundation returned music education to Pacifica’s elementary schools by paying the teachers’ salaries and providing funds for instruments and equipment. Prior to this the schools did not have music education for years
ADKmo TIL of an event called the Italian Hall Disaster, 73 people were trampled to death in a stampede because someone falsely yelled "FIRE!" in a crowded hall in Michigan.
1aP5P TIL of "The Battle of the Words" in 1915 during WW1, where Belgian and German trenches were a mere 45 metres (150 feet) apart, leading to each sides throwing insults at each other all day and night. It eventually became so annoying the Belgian commander forbade his men from talking to the Germans.