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TIL During the Cultural Revolution of 1960s China, the Forbidden City was renamed the “Palace of Blood and Tears” by the Red Guards.

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JZym TIL that when Disneyland opened, visitors had the option of arriving by highway or skyway (helicopter). However in 1968, 12 years after Disneyland opened,the skyway ended after a crash took the lives of 23 people (20 passengers and 3 crew members), the worst civilian helicopter crash in U.S. history
4PZJ TIL that there are just 357 drive-in movie theaters left in America.
YpOer TIL actress Kim Basinger bought a small town in Georgia in 1989 to try to make it a tourist destination. Five years later she sold it in bankruptcy.
PyoL TIL that Grant Imahara of Mythbusters volunteered to build Geoff Peterson–the gay robot skeleton sidekick on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson–if Craig got him 100K Twitter followers.
6vam TIL in the 1950 FIFA World Cup final in Brazil (with the hosts up against Uruguay) a speech congratulating Brazil on the win was prepared, 22 gold medals with the Brazilian players names imprinted on them were made and a song on Brazil’s victory was written prior to the finals. Uruguay won 2-1