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TIL In 1995, artists Christo and Jean-Claude wrapped Berlin's Reichstag Building in aluminum colored fabric!

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oLZE TIL of the battle of Cerami; “The Norman Thermopylae”, where 300 Normans defeated 50.000 troops of the Emirate of Sicily
9a7M TIL cats can get blood transfusions from dogs, and this once saved a cat from dying after it ate rat poison.
9bgm TIL Cher is the only artist to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in each of the past six decades.
X04OX TIL while living in a French village in the 1950s, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett sometimes drove local children to school, including a young Andre the Giant and two bonded over their love of cricket, with Andre later recalling that the two rarely talked about anything else.
4k9AX TIL that Neil Diamond had Barbra Streisand and Bobby Fischer as classmates at his Brooklyn High School - Erasmus High.