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TIL: Actor Karl Malden (born Mladen Sekulovich) always regretted changing his name. Whenever possible, he would insert "Sekulovich" into his work as the name of side or background characters.

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69wGY TIL that Bayume Mohamed Husen, a Black German born in East Africa who served in the German army during WWI and later worked as an actor in Nazi propaganda films, was arrested by the Gestapo and died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1944 for violating Nazi racial laws.
DQVjj TIL Nicéphore Niépce was the inventor of photography, and the first photographer. He also invented one of the world's first internal combustion engines, an early bicycle, and the concept for a motor-cycle.
Merl0 TIL that in 1998, the City of Des Moines, Iowa rejected a pedestrian bridge design for being "too modern." The design was based on plans made by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1504.
e0mQJ TIL there's a town in the Netherlands that has no roads or cars and everyone travels by foot, bike or canal.
VMPWQ TIL - Walt Disney negotiated the rights to build a nuclear reactor in 1967, after hiring a German physicist, Heinz Haber, to lay the groundwork for research into nuclear energy, which would be used to power Disneyland.