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TIL the last line of Franz Kafka's "The Judgement" has a sexual double meaning in its original German. Kafka later confessed that when he wrote that final line he was thinking of "a violent ejaculation" instead of "an unending stream of traffic", a play on the German word "Verkehr".

6EW9m TIL During World War I, a Canadian soldier made a black bear his pet and named her Winnipeg. “Winnie” was later a resident of the London Zoological Gardens where she was an adored attraction, especially to a boy named Christopher Robin. The boy even named his teddy bear after her.
B5NL TIL that all 3000lbs of confetti released in Times Square on New Year’s Eve for the last 25 years is done by hand and not machine launchers. It has been coordinated by “The Confetti King” Treb Heining for the last 25 years.
04BM TIL popular 80s artist Patrick Nagel who did the cover art for Duran Duran’s Rio, died at age 38 of a heart attack after participating in a 15 minute celebrity “aerobathon” to benefit the American Heart Association.
QN8pM TIL after winning the revolutionary war George Washington resigned. “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action … I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.” The next day he left for his home, Mount Vernon.
kG0E TIL of Ted Rodrigue, a homeless man who was given $100,000 as part of a documentary and social experiment. Within six months, he had less than $5,000.