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TIL Two candidates for the 1889 Paris Exhibition were a 300 meter high watering can - or guillotine. Instead the Eiffel Tower won out.

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x67D0 TIL 38yo Jerry Seinfeld met a 17yo high school student in a park & groomed her into a reromantic relationship that was public knowledge.
MGnK TIL Hong Kong has the world’s most efficient subway system with a 99.9% on-time rate and the entire system is manage via an AI
WkoOX TIL that, in 2005, Nepal Airlines sacrificed two goats in front of their two malfunctioning Boeing airplanes to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god. According to a spokesperson, the snag was fixed and the aircraft could resume their flights.
A6ma TIL German interrogator Hanns Scharff was against using physical torture on POWs. He would instead take them out to lunch, on nature walks and to swimming pools, where they would reveal information on their own. After the war he moved to the US and became a mosaic artist.
XExNX TIL That Hitler blamed the German people for his failures.