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TIL the noise produced by the Hypno-Toad from Futurama is simply a jet turbine recording played in reverse!

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9YPLm TIL that in the Rosenstrasse protests in 1943 during the middle of WWII, thousands of non-Jewish German women protested the deportation of their Jewish husbands to the concentration camps. The protests were successful, but it was the only mass protest in Nazi Germany against the deportation of Jews.
Eg8yW TIL there's a microscopic ‘Louis Vuitton’ bag , less than 0.03 inches wide(0,07cm) that has been sold for $63,750 (£50,569) at auction.
wL1R1 TIL That temperature can be used to identify poor or affluent neighbourhoods in cities. This is because trees increase the "albedo" of a district by absorbing/reflecting heat radiation, whilst poorer districts tend to have less trees in public and private spaces than posher areas.
Wx1L TIL actor Peter Mayhew had a choice of playing Darth Vader or Chewbacca in Star Wars. He chose Chewbacca because he wanted to play a hero.
bpbj TIL the Pyramids of Giza were not built by slaves, but by paid workers from poor Egyptian families in the North and South.