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TIL that in the 1980s, a Turkish immigrant in West Berlin built himself a vegetable garden that was technically in East Germany

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5rnr TIL Coca-Cola’s distribution network is being used to transport life-saving medicines to remote regions of Zambia.
mxkry TIL European dragons are mostly featured as evil creatures, greedily hoarding gold, breathing fire on innocents, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Asian dragons, however, are benevolent creatures, bringing good luck and prosperity wherever it goes.
v1O8x TIL: CBS used to add bird songs to their golf broadcasts to get rid of awkward silences until they got caught by someone watching at home who knew the bird songs belonged to birds that didn’t live in the region in which the golf tournament was being played.
GXd4 TIL “House of the Rising Sun” was originally written from the perspective of a woman. The “House” most likely referred to a brothel where she went to work off the gambling debts of her “sweetheart”
epdk5 TIL in 2010, Sandra Bullock made history when she won an Oscar and Razzie in the same year.