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TIL Ernest Hemingway was among the first to liberate Paris during WWII BUT he went straight to his favorite bar at the Ritz, reclaimed it from Luftwaffe and spent the next week drunk

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xVMW7 TIL Ulysses S. Grant invested his own money in his son's firm, but it was not enough to save the firm from failure. Essentially penniless, but compelled by a sense of personal honor, Grant repaid Vanderbilt with his Civil War mementos. The matter left Grant financially destitute.
4XXJb TIL that hip hop was created by a guy called DJ Kool Herc in the Bronx, NY
LQN9P TIL that most states in the USA have an official state fossil, for example the Stegosaurus stenops for Colorado.
epAEg TIL: Until it's collapse in 1991, the Warsaw Radio Mast was the tallest radio tower ever built at 2,120ft. It was built with the intent to broadcast communist propaganda worldwide.
VMxNB TIL that old games used Code Wheels as a method of copy protection