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TIL There was a Smoking Lounge on the Hindenburg. “The smoking room was equipped with an electric lighter, similar to the kind of glowing coil that was once standard issue in automobiles”

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4K5w TIL: That “fruit salad trees” are real, and can grow several different kinds of fruit.
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