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TIL that WWE holds a Pay Per View wrestling event called "Elimination Chamber", except it is known as "No Way Out" in Germany to avoid connotations of the gas chambers used during the Holocaust in WW2.

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dDwEr TIL in 1913 the US government held a 50th anniversary Gettysburg reunion for veterans from the Union and Confederacy and the 2 sides treated each other as brothers and not former enemies.
g48L TIL: “Teardrop” by Massive Attack was chosen to be the opening sequence of House because the song roughly mimics the sound of a beating human heart.
65xW TIL women on average actually get in more accidents per mile than men, but men are far more likely to be in fatal accidents
8GXZ TIL that in 1943 hundreds of Aryan women gathered in Berlin to protest the mass arrest and consequent imprisonment of their Jewish husbands by the Gestapo. Following a week of protesting, night and day, they won their husbands’ freedom.
gMRMD TIL Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was once accidentally set on fire while playing in a cricket match.