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TIL the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was a pioneering facility for sexuality and gender studies which was set back incalculably after the Nazis burned all of their records in 1933.

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epPv5 TIL a Land Rover commercial was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority because it had sounds of beeping parking sensors as a Land Rover backs up closer to the edge of a cliff. Two viewers had submitted complaints because the SUV's rear parking sensors were not capable of detecting cliff edges
d8D8 TIL hemophilia is prominent in European royalty, because royal families engaged in copious amounts of incest, spreading the hemophilia gene
d8lnB TIL the Ford LTD's name does not stand for Limited, but for Lincoln Type Design.
p8Eje TIL that a violent Japanese leftist group, the United Red Army, invaded a ski lodge and took the housekeeper hostage, resulting in a bloody ten-day standoff with the police and the first-ever live 24-hour news coverage in Japan
gr9g7 TIL the Flux Capacitor from Back to the Future is called the Dimensional Transition Device in the Japanese dub (次元転移装置, Jigen Ten'i Sōchi)