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TIL that There Is a Secret Apartment at the Top of the Eiffel Tower

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p85PN TIL of Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who went on a one-man 15 year crusade to get genocide condemmed under international law.
ADaWx TIL There is a government program called "Every Kid in a Park" that gives a free year-long national park pass to every fourth grade student that prints one out
W7L9o Today I Learned that barber shops were once considered incredibly disreputable and doubled as gambling dens
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