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TIL that the Chicago Railroad Fair inspired Walt Disney to create Disneyland

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0wJXN TIL: The piano Freddie Mercury used to record "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the same one Paul McCartney used on "Hey Jude"
l7a6r TIL: jumping spiders exist [disturbing content alert]
d8KVZ TIL when George Washington passed away in 1799, the British Royal Navy lowered its flags at half mast. The London Morning Chronicle stated that ‘The whole range of history does not present to our view a character upon which we can dwell with such entire and unmixed admiration’.
vPYvL TIL: 4% of the sand on Normandy beach is made up of shrapnel that has broken down.
4XZpb TIL that Nazis ran brothels within concentration camps to motivate prisoners to work more. Over 35k women were forced into forced sex labour.