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TIL that in The Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, there is an ATM that dispenses gold bars

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mkWo TIL that as a result of a 20-year-old online joke that the German city of Bielefield doesn’t actually exist, the city released a press statement titled ‘There Really is a Bielefeld!’. However as it was released on April 1st, this humorously only added to the conspiracy.
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