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TIL there is a dog suicide bridge in Scotland

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loRkG TIL about the Order of Malta, the smallest sovereign state in the world. It only has 2 or 3 citizens and owns a few buildings in Rome.
8br8 TIL in 2002, Sega’s president gifted all $695 million of his own company stock to save Sega from going bankrupt due to the Dreamcast; he died shortly afterwards following an arduous battle with cancer.
Eg5Qo TIL about Genericide - where a trademark is lost because the trademarked term becomes the generic name for the item so it can't be copyrighted; this happened to "escalator" where it lost its copyright when it became the common term for any kind of moving stairs.
P8bw TIL that traveling in Jim Crow-era America was so difficult and dangerous for African-Americans that The Negro Motorist Green Book was written to help them.
0d9WM TIL in Winnipeg (19 February 1942) a full scale simulated invasion of Winnipeg from "Nazis" (Canadian soldiers) trying to show what would happen if they didn't have the funding from war bonds to win the war. If Day - Valour Canada