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TIL there was once a "Hamburger Bank"

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k7bd TIL: In Biertan village in Transylvania Romania, the church had a “divorce/reconciliation room”: Couples that wanted to break up had to live two weeks in a room with one small bed, one table with one chair, one spoon, one plate. In 300 years they had just one divorce.
0dkeM TIL after two and a half hours of competing in the olympic high jump two athletes decided to share gold
XEe8E TIL in Washington State, it is illegal to kill Bigfoot/Sasquatch... despite it being a fictional species.
DQPg TIL John McCain, while captured by the Vietnamese, was forced to give the names of his fellow pilots or they would kill him. Instead, he gave the names of the 1961 Green Bay Packers offensive line
Oo6Ze TIL China Runs A High Speed Train From Beijing, China to Lhasa, Tibet, about 1272 miles away, and passes through the highest elevation attained by any train in the world (16,600ft) requiring oxygen to be pumped into the specially built passenger cabins and with a doctor onboard every train