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TIL Toro, which means "melting", is sushi made from fatty tuna belly. While today commanding an extremely high price in the areas of the world where consumers like fatty fish (Japan, USA), before WWII, it was considered low quality and often discarded.

5PYr TIL Louis Armstrong was 1 of the few people who could move between East and West Berlin without papers. “The East Germans had their guns out, looked at us and said ‘Louis Armstrong.’ They got his autograph and waved us on. On the US side; 'This is Satchmo!’ Every night we went back and forth.”
m1E0O TIL: The Libreria Acqua Alta in Venice, Italy is a bookstore that has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats, including a full size gondola, it also has a fire escape that exits directly into a canal.
MBMW TIL the during the filming of the Great Escape’s famous motorcycle chase, Steve McQueen not only did most of his own motorcycle stunts, but also did it as one of the nazis chasing his character. Thus, thru the power of editing, Steve McQueen is actually chasing himself.
WB7o TIL that while high profile scientists such as Carl Sagan have advocated the transmission of messages into outer space, Stephen Hawking has warned against it, suggesting that aliens might simply raid Earth for its resources and then move on.
neWlW TIL in the 1863 New York City Draft Riots, a mob that was going to loot the New York Times' building was held back by NYTimes staff manning Gatling guns, including the paper's founder