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TIL until 2016, the bylaws of German Gardens in Yaphank, N.Y. (formerly the German American Bund's Camp Siegfried) restricted homeownership to people "of German extraction"

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P1mbO TIL that the remains at the archaeological site of the oldest known wooden-built structure (think log cabin style) are thought to be from 476,000 years ago. Kalambo Structure, Kalambo Falls, Lake Tanganyika, southeast Africa.
mxpjO TIL Boney M's Bobby Farrell died on the same day at the same place as Grigori Rasputin whom he inspired them to write a song about.
VPe0 TIL that wealthy Chinese hire body doubles to get prosecuted for their crimes; this process is called Ding zui
QJYKL TIL the Graf Zeppelin was the first airship to offer commercial transatlantic flights, to cross the Pacific without stops, to circumnavigate the world, and to travel over a million miles.
yQRRv TIL that the Jack in a deck of cards does not represent royalty. It originally was called a knave in England, which was member of the royal household with no specific job. This later became Jack, as in Jack-of-all-trades, which was a non-specific reference to any generic man.