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TIL: On September 11, 1905, was the worst accident on the New York City elevated railways, resulting in 13 deaths and 48 serious injuries.

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69D8X TIL in 2012 Star Wars: A New Hope was translated into the Navajo language, becoming the first major motion picture to be dubbed in a Native American language.
oRdoo TIL a human skin lampshade was found in one of the houses in the Nazi SS soldier accomodation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. A speciality of the SS in Buchenwald was the production of macabre “gifts” made of human remains
OoM1X TIL that there is a near-abandoned Flintstones-themed camp ground and amusement park in Arizona, about 30 minutes from the Grand Canyon, complete with year-round camping and a "Bedrock Theater" that plays Flintstones cartoons
kJXjB Today I learned that in Mormonism, the first Pharaoh of Egypt was literally named Pharaoh and his mother was named Egyptus. There is no basis for this in any other source.
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