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TIL Germans were persecuted/lynched in America during and prior to WWI

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D1ZgP TIL as a kid, Ice-T had his bike stolen. He told his father about it; he simply shrugged and said: "Well, then, you ain't got no bike." Ice-T then stole parts from various bicycles and assembled "three or four weird-looking, brightly-painted bikes" from the parts. His father never even noticed.
Jeyv TIL a former tram driver in Vienna stole a tram and took it for a drive while the real driver was in the bathroom. He did it because he missed his job.
4vOb TIL The developers of famous movies such as Forest Gump, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Return of the Jedi and many others use “Hollywood Accounting” to inflate expenses and show a net loss. This allowed them to completely dodge payments to writers that agreed to be paid a percentage of net profit.
Rw9 TIL scientists have found a way to make an invisibility cloak, which led to “time cloaks,” that can make entire events invisible.
nx6W TIL that 125 airlines from 18 African countries are blacklisted by the EU. (banned from operating in European airspace for a lack of safety oversight)… the world’s second-largest and second most populated continent, accounts for less than 3% of the world’s air traffic.