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TIL Jiddu Krishnamurti was revered as a prophet from childhood, but during a ceremony meant to establish his messianic status to the world he shocked his followers by renouncing his "coming", dissolving their organization, repudiating organized religion, and denouncing the concept of saviors.

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X1gk TIL during a tour of Germany in 1958, Groucho Marx climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of Adolf Hitler’s bunker, the site of Hitler’s death, and performed a two-minute Charleston
wowKM TIL that Two train stations in the United States, Pennsylvania Station in New York City and the Chicago Union Station were built with architecture that is based on the Frigidarium of the Baths of Caracalla. Unfortunately, many years ago, Penn Station was redeveloped.
4X18w TIL the anthems of the UK and Lichtenstein have the same melody.
69XpW TIL in 2007, an adhesive company was sued for 16million for manslaughter charges as a result of structure failure that take place in the world's most expensive highway
5VeWR TIL "breatharians" have killed several people since the 1980s through starvation / dehydration