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TIL In 1916, the German Empire allowed citizens to take passport photos with their dogs.

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AEpo TIL that General Electric in Schenectady, NY has the zip code 12345, and receives thousands of letters to Santa yearly from kids who guess Santa’s address. Employees there often use their breaks to write response letters.
VMQ84 TIL that fake Christmas trees were invented by a company that made toilet brushes and were made on the same machinery.
XEBv8 TIL that a book named 'Xing Fengsu' ( Sexual Customs) was banned in China in 1989 for insulting Islam.
MeadW TIL in 1996, Russia launched a Mars Rover called "Mars96". It crashed back to earth after 2 days, containing plutonium-238 fuel which would have survived the impact. Nobody ever bothered to look for it, and it's believed to just be lying around the Andes mountains.
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