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TIL Japan has an amusement park which recreates a Dutch town with canals, windmills, gardens and architecture

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nNnd TIL Steve Buscemi was a New York City fire fighter from 1980 to 1984. After the events of 9/11, he showed up in NYC to volunteer, working twelve-hour shifts for a week, and digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters.
BrWBD TIL President Kennedy wanted to go to Mars not the Moon – but engineers told him it was 'a little bit too far'. Nasa told him it would take at least 15 years before we could put a man on the Moon after a weekend of intense calculations
W74RN TIL that, following WW2, a German engineering company - JA Topf & Sons - continued in business under different names until 1996. JA Topf & Sons designed and built gas chambers and crematoria ovens for Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau and other concentration camps.
OoeoL TIL a blind recruitment trial which was supposed to boost gender equality was paused when it turned out that removing gender from applications led to more males being hired than when gender was stated.
GDgQ TIL that Quiznos sued one of its franchisees because they did not put enough meat on their sandwiches. The franchisee counter-sued Quiznos and won.