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TIL: In 1874, the New York Herald caused widespread panic in NYC by reporting, under the headline "A Shocking Sabbath Carnival of Death," that animals had escaped from the Central Park Zoo, killing 49 people and injuring 200. The paper revealed only in the final paragraph that the story was a hoax.

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m7QM TIL that East Germany created its own cola drink. Vita-Cola’s sales almost disappeared after the fall of the Berlin Wall brought Coke and Pepsi into the East. It is still the most popular cola in Thuringia, making the German state one of the few places in the world where Coca-Cola is not the leader.
p8DMN TIL The first virus that attacked MS-DOC is called Brain and was written by two brothers, Basit Farooq Alvi and Amjad Farooq Alvi, from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan in 1986.
Vbo8 TIL that, based on history, in a real financial meltdown bartering useful items was how people got by and gold was not as useful as most people believe.
8aRxX TIL about James Fallon, a neuroscientist who studied the brain scans of psychopaths, only to discover that he was one himself
xGdw TIL of Miniatur Wunderland, the largest, most complex and most expensive model train set in the world.