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TIL Fall Colors Are Different in U.S. and Europe
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TIL In 1964 Hildegarde Trabant became the fifthtieth person (and one of eight women) to be killed at the Berlin Wall. A member of the Communist Party and married to a member of the police force, she was reportedly fleeing an abusive marriage when she was killed at the age of 37.
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TIL of the devastation of Sandby Borg. It was the scene of a massacre in the late 5th century AD. The victims of the massacre were never buried but are found lying as they fell, inside the houses and scattered on the streets of the fort. The site was never occupied again.
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TIL before Gilligan's Island got its famous theme, the pilot featured a 6 minute long Calypso song written by a then-unknown John Williams
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TIL about the Iowa Cow War, a series of violent disputes over the testing of cows for bovine tuberculosis in 1931 after a radio station spread misinformation saying that the tests gave the cows tuberculosis. It lead to the deployment of 31 Iowa National Guard units to protect the testers.
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TIL there is rare genetic variation (SNP rs121912617) that allows people to sleep 2 hours less a night with no ill effects.