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TIL while filming Metropolis (1927) they would often end up with more children in the evening than in the morning. Coming from the poorest areas of Berlin, the children would sneak onto set or climb over the fence to experience the warm rooms, games, toys, cocoa, cake, and regular meals

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b9w7Z TIL during the Depression, Frederick Mellinger, was fired from a job for proposing they sell black women's underwear instead of the basic white. He then joined the Army and found that men wanted to see pin-up girls in more risque lingerie. This caused him to make his own exotic line of lingerie.
1aoxO TIL that an English Earl was once king of Germany
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xVeno TIL the grandson of Aztec ruler Moctezuma II was baptized and married a Spanish noblewoman, his son became the first count of Moctezuma and his descendants are a part of Spanish nobility to this day.
NXboE TIL All of the gold discovered thus far would fit in a cube that is 23 meters wide on every side.