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TIL Arsenio Hall was the voice of Winston Zeddemore on The Real Ghostbusters seasons 1-3

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JZdB TIL that dating was such a novelty in the early 1900s that women were often misperceived as prostitutes and arrested for letting a man buy them dinner
vJRR TIL after the Nazi’s occupied Warsaw, 80% of the city was destroyed and reconstruction efforts were guided by a series of 1700s cityscape paintings. It was later discovered the painter had made artistic “improvements” … so the rebuilt structures looked different (arguably better) than before.
nrjB TIL that Hitler planned to reduce the “non-German population” in occupied countries by “persuading them that vaccination and the like are really most dangerous”.
j6RVX TIL that Sir Edward Elgar, composer of, "Pomp and Circumstance March No.1," more commonly known as "The Graduation Song" never actually finished school himself. He only received general education until the age of fifteen. Meanwhile, most of his musical talent came from self-teaching and study.
GALAN TIL They developed and implemented Pacemakers powered by a Plutontum 238 source, people are still living with them til this day