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TIL the Seattle Space Needle’s center of gravity is 5 feet above ground level and it can stand Category 5 hurricane-force winds

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e49k TIL when Einstein died in 1955, the physician who conducted his autopsy at Princeton stole his brain and took it home to perform “research”, for which he was ultimately fired after refusing to return the brain. Decades later, he drove to California to return the brain to Einstein’s granddaughter.
AD1Ag TIL Berliners love the "currywurst", a sausage topped with curry ketchup, so much, that there have been commemorative coins, novels, plays and movies honoring its invention. By tradition, every candidate for mayor must be photographed in front of a currywurst stand.
kOE9B TIL the Byzantine Emperor Basi II, or Basi the Bulgar Slayer, after the Battle of Kleidion, put captured Bulgarians into groups of one-hundred, and left ninety-nine of each group blind. The latter of whom was captured and left with only one eye, and had to lead the blind group back home.
b6nNZ TIL Conscription in Germany was active till 2011
p4Db TIL the largest scale model of our solar system spans the length of Sweden, the Sun being represented by the largest hemispherical building in the world.