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TIL- There are ‘Google Street View’ images that are being collected by a camel

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loAy7 TIL during the 1930s, George Ross Gyssling was Hitler’s man in Hollywood, placed there to ensure studios complied with the Führer and the suggested cuts or risk anti-Nazi themed films being barred in Germany. But unbeknown to his bosses, he was a double agent passing valuable intelligence to US
JYprk TIL that a photographer took photographs of Robert Kennedy’s assassination. The LAPD confiscated these photos for evidence. When he asked for them back, he was told they’d been destroyed. He sued and during the trial it was proven they tried to provide fake photos and his original photos were stolen
RYr6 TIL in 2012, a neon light was discovered behind a bathroom wall in a Los Angeles restaurant, which had been left on for 77 years, amounting to over $17,000 in electric bills
JyD1 TIL that “Jerusalem has been destroyed at least twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times.”
X0DXD TIL octopuses have 9 brains and 3 hearts