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TIL the Berlin Wall was a wall that encircled ALL of West Berlin; it didn’t just bisect Berlin. Also, West Berlin was surrounded by East Germany for over 100 miles in all directions

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nWGB9 TIL that owning a video game console during 2020–2022 in Japan improved mental well-being by reducing psychological distress and increasing life satisfaction.
X0aR TIL Nelson Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008
grrnL TIL in the 1700s oysters were so overly abundant and popular in New York City that the discarded shells were repurposed into mortar paste to aid NY’s building boom. Trinity Church is an example of a building built with oyster-shells.
rR0lW TIL that the NFL sent a cease and desist order to an Indiana Church in 2007 for charging admission to a Super Bowl party that was showing the game on a TV larger than 55 inches thus infringing on the NFL’s copyright laws.
e0PdE TIL that most sex in giraffes are homosexual in nature and mostly involves male-male sex.