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TIL Serpent D'Océan is a sculpture made of aluminium, 130m in length. It represents the skeleton of an immense imaginary sea serpent, whose vertebrae undulate to end in an open mouth.

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l75kK TIL that the Columbia torch lady is a coworker of the painter hired for Columbia’s new logo. The impromptu photo shoot was conducted in her living room, and this session marked her first and only time modeling.
e0Lok TIL that Walter Breuning stopped smoking cigars at age 103 because they became too expensive. At age 108, he began smoking cigars again after receiving a lot of gifts of cigars. He ultimately ended up living to age 114.5 and was the second-last verified surviving man born in the 1800s.
e8Ob TIL After consulting with Brandeis, President Woodrow Wilson declared that the banking system must be “public not private, must be vested in the government itself so that the banks must be the instruments, not the masters, of business.”
PYgmn TIL that on 5th May 1945, 5 days after Hitler's suicide, American and German soldiers fought together against the Nazi SS to free prominent French prisoners of war from Itter Castle. It is believed to be the only battle in the war in which Americans and Germans fought together as allies.
LRgr TIL The only person to ever create 3 companies to go public on the New York stock exchange was a trucker who only got into it because his family could not afford to send him to college. He ended up creating the entire shipping container industry, as well as the ships that carry them. Malcom McLean.