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TIL: In 1965, Heinz Holzapfel, his wife Jutta and son, fled the communist east Berlin ziplining from a government building over the Berlin Wall.

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9YW6B TIL the Empire of Japan killed as many as 250,000 Chinese civilians because they helped 67 American bomber crewmen escape.
R70b4 TIL in 2013 a dog named Killian saved a baby boy from an abusive babysitter. He alerted his owners by growling and standing between the baby and the sitter whenever she was there. Suspicious, the parents left an iPhone under the sofa recording audio. The sitter was later convicted on what they heard
ELO7 TIL: Two Australian men started a travelling"dick trick" act that performed contortions and manipulation of the male genitalia. It was largely successful and performed shows in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Europe, Canada, the U.S., South Africa and Argentina.
8amwP TIL the first Reebok Pump shoes were released on November 24, 1989. That month, Dominique Wilkins introduced them to the world by pumping in a TV commercial.
Bg0x TIL Kim Jong-Il once rounded up all the short people in Pyongyang and sent them away to uninhabited islands “to end their ‘substandard’ genes from repeating in a new generation”.