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TIL that upon the storming of the Bastille and the release of prisoners, the facility had held only seven men captive, not hundreds. Eight prisoners would have been freed but the Marquis de Sade had been released ten days earlier.

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KA8Q TIL a 14 year old with cancer installed an ICEE machine at her hospital to help other children battling cancer off-set the side effects of cancer. Her parents are continuing her legacy and have raised enough money to install 13 machines this far!
p8XRG TIL there are no railways and no roads connecting any of the towns in Greenland. Historically the major means of transportation has been by boat around the coast in summer and by dog sled in winter. Nowadays air travel, by helicopter or other aircraft, is the main way of travel.
QJgKE TIL fed up by people frequently urinating against houses, a community in Hamburg's red light district started painting walls with water repellent paint so if someone urinate against the wall, their pee would splash off the surface to their shoes.
Z884D TIL Adidas purchased its famous 3-stripe logo from Karhu Sports in 1952, for two bottles of whiskey, and the equivalent of 1600 euros
W775B TIL that the Capitol was designed to have George Washington's tomb on public display. Both houses passed bills saying he should be buried there, and his wife consented, but due to various delays it took until 1830 for it to be viable. After an attempted theft of his head, the project was cancelled.