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TIL: in 1984, East Germany gave 5000 fake gas masks to Iran

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Kw14 TIL that today is Isaac Newton’s birthday
V6aD TIL David Bowie performed at the Berlin Wall, while East Germans gathered to listen behind. “And we would hear them cheering and singing along from the other side. God, even now I get choked up. It was breaking my heart. I’d never done anything like that in my life, and I guess I never will again.”
x6vP7 TIL that Each day in France, over 3 million jambon-beurre (ham and butter) sandwiches are sold, more than almost any other kind of sandwich, except for fast-food hamburgers
P1L8e TIL Ram Jam’s version of Black Betty is a cover from LedBelly’s original from the 1930’s.
WkxVN TIL that since projectors cannot project the color black, they rely on an optical illusion using the darkness of a room to give the illusion of the color black.