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TIL Black Couturier Ann Lowe Designed Jackie Kennedy's Wedding Dress

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wLbk6 TIL It's more likely that you'll die by a lightning strike than it is to die in a flood.
jNPWp TIL the Berlin Wall was opened accidentally. After being told wrong info, a Soviet spokesman stated that border crossings would be allowed, “immediately”. Crossings were actually planned to be allowed in limited circumstances. Thousands of East Germans then ran to the border and forced it open.
b9Paa TIL in 2020 the average American auto loan term went above 70 months for the first time.
GYXe4 TIL The British town of Berwick-upon-Tweed was, due to a bureaucratic error, left out of the Crimean War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and Russia. Upon Berwick's eventual signing of a peace treaty 110 years later, then-Mayor declared: “Tell the Russians they can sleep easy in their beds.”
LkPDp TIL Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network.An Android phone can become a “mini seismometer” because it has an accelerometer — the thing that detects if you’ve rotated it or not. Android’s system uses the data from that sensor to see if the phone is shaking.