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TIL due to a hack, Google Maps shows a shop called “Edward’s Snow Den” in the rear of the White House

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4BM5 TIL that back in the day, the guard who stood in the watchtower would ring a bell when the tower’s shadow disappeared (signalling midday and the start of a new watchman’s shift). This is how the term “watch” became associated with telling time!
naL9 TIL in 1750 a fully automated scale-model clockwork town was built in Austria, with 200 moving figures all replicating the activities of various townspeople - and it’s still working today, 260 years later!
8eNOK TIL the Soviet Union had a famous clown imitator of Charlie Chaplin named Karandash.
rRO6e TIL that on his death bed in 1936, King George's Dr issued the final notice “The King’s life is moving peacefully towards its close" and then proceeded to inject him with 750mg of morphine and 1000mg of cocaine, enough to kill him twice over.
LQlPV TIL the 1998 film "Your Friends & Neighbors" is the first film to be reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes.