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TIL after the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, so much of the city had been razed that a 18th century landscape painting was used to rebuild the city.

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JYJ6l TIL that Korean-American Andrew Lee from California was inaugurated as Crown Prince in early 2018 by King Yi Seok, the nominal emperor of the Joseon Dynasty. He is the successor to the throne of his ancestor King Sejong, who created the Korean alphabet, Hangul.
d8XPr TIL Dr. Gay Hitler, son of George Washington Hitler, was a well-respected dentist living in Circleville, Ohio. Because Adolf Hitler misspelled his grandfather's surname "Hiedler", the Hitlers of Ohio are likely the only true Hitlers
loDar TIL that the Azerbaijani village of Qırmızı Qəsəbə is the world's only all-Jewish town outside Israel and the USA, and is considered to be the world's last surviving shtetl. Alongside Azerbaijani and Russian, residents also speak Judeo-Tat, the traditional language of the Mountain Jews
QNoVX TIL that the 18th century had its own version of the "mile high club." The Earl of Cholmondeley (1749-1827) once wagered Lord Derby two guineas against 500 guineas that he could have sexual intercourse with a woman "in a balloon one thousand yards from the Earth."
gMd9b TIL of the Hadza people, whose ancestors have occupied the area surrounding the "Cradle of Mankind" for tens of thousands of years. Their oral histories are so ancient that it is possible they reference living alongside earlier extinct hominids such as Homo erectus