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TIL that Margaret Thatcher was opposed to the fall of the Berlin Wall and actively tried to stop it

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N7vjM TIL: How a Fitness App Revealed Secret Military Bases
165Jr TIL: the owner of Fuddruckers restaurant is the first black American to own 100% of a national hamburger franchise.
KPeJ TIL, In 2001, A man was shot dead while testing a bulletproof potion. He’d asked a witchdoctor to make him invincible to bullets. After applying a potion for two weeks, a fellow villager shot him to check if it worked. He died instantly
RZQj TIL that the reason many windows are blocked or bricked-up on older buildings in England is because there used to be a tax on windows.
JY6Aj TIL Big Ben is actually the name of the bell, not the tower itself, which is now called Elizabeth Tower.