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TIL that downtown Milwaukee has a strip club called “Art’s Performing Center” located right next to the “Performing Arts Center”

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16l4r TIL about Lager Sylt and Lager Norderney, the only Nazi Concentration camps ever built on British soil. Both were located on Alderney Island in the English Channel during WWII.
OBr7 TIL During hyperinflation in Germany in the 1920s, many people suffered from “a compulsion to write endless strings of zeros” called Zero Stroke
peOO TIL in 1933, a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater.
78M7X Til that by 1910, 10% of tuberculosis cases were caused by raw milk consumption, and by 1938 25% of all food/waterborne disease was linked to unpasteurized milk, regardless of farm hygiene or symptomatic status of the animal. This predates factory farming.
Eko7 TIL-The PowerPuff Girls were originally a short called “ Whoop Ass Stew” and that “Chemical X” was actually a can of Whoop Ass, but eventually it became a cartoon on Cartoon Network with the names changed to be appropriate for children.