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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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QRVX TIL that Kevin Costner offered CIA operative and watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt $5 million to tell the truth about what happened in Dallas when JFK was assassinated.
epd0b TIL there is a common misperception that a landmine is armed by stepping on it and only triggered by stepping off, providing tension in movies. In fact the initial pressure trigger will detonate the mine immediately.
dDrmj TIL That Helium is the only element that is completely non-renewable, and we're rapidly running out of it - which is a big issue, as Helium is used heavily in the scientific community
neGkP TIL about the "Murder Castle", a building owned by the serial killer H. H. Holmes. This complicated building included maze-like hallways, seemingly leading to nowhere airtight rooms used as elaborate torture rooms, acid vats a crematorium and more. It is suspected that Holmes had around 200 victims.
6EZ7X TIL The cliché "It was a dark and stormy night" originally opened a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, about a highwayman sentenced to death by a judge who turns out to be his father. Bulwer-Lytton infamously convinced Dickens to change "Great Expectations" to give it a more conventional "happy" ending.