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TIL in 2015 Beijing banned 2.5 million cars for two weeks to get beautiful blue skies for a World War II parade.

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x6kPD TIL of The Beetle (1897), a novel about a shapeshifter in London. It was so popular upon release, that it sold six times as many copies as Dracula.
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