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TIL New York City is encircled by translucent eruv wire to allow observant Jews to run errands and so socialize on the Sabbath. Other major cities including Chicago and St. Louis are also encircled by eruv wire

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59p8 TIL Daniel Inouye was a Japanese American soldier in WWII who led an extremely triumphant battle against Nazi forces, in which he cooked a grenade in his right hand, was shot in his right arm, and pried the grenade out with his left and threw it to destroy a German bunker.
4XPba TIL After Polio started spreading, swimming pools and movie theaters were closed every summer for forty years.
rNkx1 TIL: The last Ottoman Empire Prince lived in a rent-controlled apartment in New York.
OokV4 TIL of Hans Oster, a Nazi general and one of the highest ranking officers who despised Hitler and help save Jews from getting arrested. He was part of the plot to assassinate Hitler and was executed in April 1945, one month before the war was over
LkxVP TIL of the ancient law of General Average. If a ship carrying cargo is required to jettison some of its load to save the rest, the loss of the cargo is to be shared proportionally among interest holders. First written in law in 800BC, it continues to be declared in present-day maritime emergencies.