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TIL Studies show patients suffering from kidney stones often passed the stones while riding the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

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LEmm TIL - The only Jewish Community to not lose a single Person to the Holocaust was in the Greek island of Zakynthos - Nazi’s demanded the Bishop to write the names down but were handed a paper with only the Bishop’s and Mayor’s name on it
OpWe TIL Bruce Lee Once Said He Thought Muhammad Ali Would “Kill” Him in a Fight
kORlB TIL: Psycho was the first movie to show a toilet flushing
g5Yy TIL Orson Welles’ radio adaptation of “War of the Worlds” never actually caused a mass panic in 1938. This rumor was created by newspaper journalists in an attempt to discredit radio as a medium because they felt threatened by it.
8eedL TIL that there are around 1 million Racoons living in Germany. There was an attempt made in 1934 to introduce them by releasing a pair, but this attempt was seen as unsuccessful.A second population was established in eastern Germany in 1945 when 25 raccoons escaped from a fur farm after an airstrike