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TIL that some elevators have undo commands if you press the wrong button

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yoMe TIL that the oldest Parisian café in continuous operation is “Café Procope”. It was opened in 1686
R78G9 TIL that Sammy Davis Jr didn’t only overcome racism over being black when he became famous in the 50s. He was one of the first openly bisexual pop singers, he was Jewish in perhaps the most anti-Semitic period in modern American history, and he only had one eye!
N7Nl6 TIL that France's second-most popular sandwich is just ham, slices of butter and a baguette.
ADLG7 TIL Clare Hollingworth, an English journalist who first broke the story of the German occupation of Poland in 1939, putting her phone out her window so a doubting British diplomat could hear the tanks.
0wE11 TIL Perry Farrell, frontman for Jane's Addiction, is the only person who has performed at all twelve Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festivals to date, having appeared under five different names.