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TIL a piece of the Berlin Wall can be found in the men's bathroom of the Main Street Station Hotel in Las Vegas. It is unclear how it ended up there but the nearly 10-feet wide and 6-feet tall piece of the wall is encased in glass to prevent damage.

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O4Vg TIL that for hundreds of years, “Computer” was a job title for a person who did math problems all day.
vPewB TIL spiders lack leg muscles and instead extend their legs through a hydraulic system powered by their blood pressure. Upon death, the legs curl up due to the loss of blood pressure.
7Enr TIL that Queen guitarist Brian May developed hepatitis from a tainted needle in 1974, almost forcing him to have his arm amputated. He eventually regained his health in time to help his bandmates finish the album which contained their first megahit, “Killer Queen”.
waN6 TIL of a P51 fighter pilot captured by the Japanese after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Under torture for info about the Manhattan Project - which he was ignorant of - Marcus McDilda made up a lie that the US had 100 bombs and that Tokyo was the next target. Japan soon surrendered.
O9Ne TIL Henry Ford believed ethanol was the future of fuel and said: “There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.”