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TIL that the designer of the first shopping malls had envisioned them as mixed-use facilities with libraries, apartments, green spaces, post offices and medical services being placed alongside commercial stores.

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0oVN TIL that during the Civil Rights Movement, the Soviet Union purposely inflamed racial tensions by mailing forged threats from the KKK to black neighborhoods
e09vL TIL discussing sex became accepted in North Korea after Kim Jong-il’s visit to Mt. Chilbo in 1996. A guide showed Kim a rock which legend says depicts a couple having sex, and Kim enjoyed the story. After that, every time Kim visited new sites, guides created stories describing them in sexual terms
7rLmO TIL the bleeding of their fans saved the german Bundesligst Union Berlin from bankruptcy (by selling their blood donations)
epM55 TIL Germany Invaded Belgium in WWII and committed unspeakable atrocities despite Belgium having a peace treaty in place. A German official called the treaty just “a scrap of paper”.
r5jW TIL Futurama is named after an exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair that showed what they thought the world would be like in 1959