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TIL Famous Graffiti artist Banksy once had an old man sell his art with a sketchy stand on a roadside in New York. Each one was worth tens of thousands of dollars. He sold them for $60.

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5Yaxk TIL: Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, DC, used to be a drawbridge. It hasn't opened since the 60s. Attached to the bridge legs are the operator's office and control room --still present but long-abandoned and sealed shut in 1976.
vpR7 TIL Hitler, Trotsky, Stalin & Freud all lived within a few miles of each other in Vienna 1913. They even walked in the same park and ate in the same coffeehouse.
AWKa TIL due to name confusion, staff of the Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail
LQxav TIL Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists. Today it is used to describe those who uphold the legacies of leaders such as Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.
eRbL TIL houses in Amsterdam have hooks built into the top front to help people move things in and out of upper story windows