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TIL it’s harder to get into Clown College than it is Harvard.

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P1Zee TIL that Los Angeles and San Diego Purchase most of their water from a private corporation called 'The Wonderful Company', which functions as a holding company for billionaire couple Stewart and Lynda Resnick. POM Wonderful and FIJI Water are two of their business divisions.
xVON5 TIL in the final years of World War II, Italian businessman Giorgio Perlasca risked his life by posing as a Spanish diplomat in order to save more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. Perlasca, a non-Jew, has been honored for his heroism, courage, and compassion by several nations
awrXZ TIL: There have been 60,000 attempts to get across the Berlin Wall. 5,000 people managed to escape through the Wall, with an estimated death toll of 136.
KOWxG TIL There is a fake cemetery in Houston put there to prevent littering and vagrancy
yWol TIL there’s a teddybear in every Dutch police car, in case something troubling happens to a child.