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TIL that the National Art Museum Of Ukraine recreated a "Sleeping Beauty" live exhibit inviting men to awaken beauties with a kiss. Five women were selected to perform "sleeping", having agreed to a very binding clause to marry the men if they opened their eyes while being kissed.

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Z8dO4 TIL that the Nazi-collaborationist government of France ironically held an entire trial to blame the generals of the democratically elected French Third Republic for losing the Battle of France to the Nazis in 1940.
5oBP TIL: Every year they pull out between 12,000 and 15,000 bikes from the canals of Amsterdam
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