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TIL that many countries do not grant full freedom of panorama: photographs of publicly-visible buildings may infringe copyright and may not be shared (especially commercially) without permission

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wLejY TIL Margot Robbie initially thought the script for I, Tonya was fiction. She wasn't aware of Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan or anything to do with the knee-bashing incident. Since there was no one who could match Tonya's skating technique they had to handle it with visual effects
xV047 TIL that in the Fuggerei, the oldest social housing complex in the world (located in the German city of Augsburg), the rent hasn't changed for over 500 years, and still stands at one Rhenish guilder (0.88 euros) per year, as well as three daily Catholic prayers for the current owners
88A8 TIL during WW2 Canadian soldier Leo Major singlehandedly captured 93 Nazis in the Netherlands. He later singlehandedly captured the town of Zwolle from the Germans. And he was blind in one eye.
p60e TIL that the US government paid an average of $1.8 million to the families of the victims of 9/11
Y7nmA TIL The US military once accidentally killed over 6,000 sheep with nerve gas when a weapons test went wrong