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TIL That there is a giant shoe statue dedicated to the man that threw one at GWB at a conference in 2008

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LLmd TIL that Stockholm, capital of Sweden, is built on 14 islands, and that the city centre is “virtually situated on the water”.
v1B4B TIL that In 2011, S.N.C.F., the French state railway company, apologized to victims of the Holocaust after lawmakers in the United States moved to block it from winning contracts there if the firm did not acknowledge its role in the shipping of Jews to death camps.
VK7D TIL the largest living creature on earth is a 2,200 acre mushroom living in Oregon.
eZwb TIL that by the 1600s, the Spanish royal family had a higher infant-mortality rate than their peasants.
VdgG TIL Nikola Tesla still has inventions classified by the US government.