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TIL annually Paris experiences nearly 20 cases of mental break downs from visiting Japanese tourists, whom cannot reconcile the disparity between the Japanese popular image of Paris and the reality of Paris.

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0dGn1 TIL immediately after his Gettysburg speech, Lincoln came down with a mild case of smallpox to which he quipped: "For once in my life as president, I am in a position to give everybody something."
kOxK4 TIL that the Great Smog of London killed in only 4 days, 4.000 people, made 150.000 people ill and killed 8.000 additional people in the months that followed of related diseases whereas in the Chernobyl disaster 31 people died and an additional 4.000 died of related diseases.
oB7wK TIL that in 1959, Martin Luther King Jr. made an impromptu stop at the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation to meet with tribal leaders whom he was "fascinated" by. This visit would later lead Dr. King to speak out against the government's treatment, both past & present, of Native Americans.
Lk1j9 TIL during prohibition, merchants would sell "bricks" of grape concentrate with a label that warned consumers not to mix the concentrate with yeast, water, and sugar and age the mixture for seven days, because "an illegal alcoholic beverage will result".
o4v7 TIL America is still in a state of emergency from 9/11