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RYr6 TIL in 2012, a neon light was discovered behind a bathroom wall in a Los Angeles restaurant, which had been left on for 77 years, amounting to over $17,000 in electric bills
wob0Y TIL that East Germany commemorated anniversaries of Karl Marx's birth and death known as Karl Marx Year. During these anniversaries, East Germany renamed Chemnitz to Karl-Marx-Stadt and Leipzig University to Karl Marx University. A monument of Marx was also created.
EavV TIL barns are painted red because red paint is cheap. The paint is cheap because iron is plentiful, and iron is plentiful because it is the final element formed out of a star’s death.
LkYZd TIL that the sleepover scene in Grease where Rizzo sings "Elvis, Elvis, let me be! Keep that pelvis far from me!” was shot on the same day that Elvis Presley died.
mbpE TIL that US President Grover Cleveland bought a baby carriage for a child who would later become his wife.