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TIL you can Street View around the Old City in Jerusalem

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0P4p TIL that Sony were still producing the Cassette Walkman up until 2010
ewXL TIL actor Werner Herzog was shot while filming an interview by an unknown individual with an air rifle. Herzog continued the interview and showed his wound on camera but acted as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened, remarking, “It is not a significant bullet.”
OoaAg TIL that in languages where spelling is highly phonetic (e.g. Italian) often lack an equivalent verb for "to spell". To clarify, one will often ask "how is it written?" and the response will be a careful pronunciation of the word, since this is sufficient to spell it.
mpNp TIL Cinco de Mayo is bigger in the US than it is in Mexico, mostly because beer manufacturers saw it as a marketing opportunity in the 1980’s
wLX81 TIL during the first combat usage of the American Sidewinder missile in 1958, a dud hit an enemy plane and became lodged without exploding. The pilot returned to base, allowing Soviet engineers to study it and reverse-engineer a nearly identical missile for their own use.