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TIL Germany is the only country where you can't "travel through time" and look at old "Street Views" because of strict privacy regulations.

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awGyo TIL Billionaire Aristotle Onassis (who married Jacqueline Kennedy after JFK's assassination) upholstered his yacht's bar stools with whale foreskins
XEwlR TIL that after Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, his coffin was taken by train from New York to Washington DC and thousands gathered along the route to see it pass by. Paul Fusco photographed the crowds from the train.
A6l4 TIL A World Cup qualifying match between Chile and Brazil was canceled after an opposing fan hit the Chilean goalkeeper with a flare. Photos later proved that the flare never touched him; he faked the injury with a hidden razor blade.
4VBN TIL, Ancient Greeks and Romans used asbestos to make fire retardant materials so they could be cleaned by throwing them into the fire. Pliny the Elder noted that people who had contact with asbestos-containing materials acquired “sickness of the lungs.”
GY9oE Today I learned that the Original Olympic Flag was stolen by an American Diver on a dare then kept by him for 80 years.