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TIL There Is A Dress That Becomes Transparent When Wearer Is Sexually Aroused

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geQA TIL that Wilhelm Furtwängler, a leading German conductor, called Hitler a “hissing street pedlar” and an “enemy of the human race”. He also refused to give the Nazi salute, wrote public letters denouncing antisemitism, and once got into a shouting match with Hitler over Nazi cultural policy.
pExp TIL the german banker who claimed is bank was committing fraud and was locked up for being crazy, already won his case and is now a free man
X0WQ TIL Thomas Edison had his people steal a copy of A trip to the Moon (1902, listed as the 82nd best movie ever made) and made a fortune from it while the creator and founder of modern cinema Georges Méliès who planned on taking it to America ended up bankrupt shortly after.
m4mo TIL Prescott Bush (Grandfather of George W.) was involved in a plot to overthrow the U.S. government and replace it with a fascist dictatorship in 1933.
9wl7 TIL that Bender’s apartment door number, 00100100, is binary for the dollar sign $.