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TIL that there is a park in Moscow containing toppled statues from across Russia

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VM0gZ Til in 1987 a North Korean spy blew up a plane,killing 115 people. She was sentenced to death, then pardoned, and finally married one of her interrogators—they now have two children together.
kJ69E TIL Louis Till, father of Emmet Till, also died by hanging 10 years before Emmet during WWII after receiving a Court Marital in Italy
5YpGR TIL In the 1890s, electric bicycles were documented within various U.S. patents. However, in 1992 hardly any commercial electric bicycles were available and the terms E-Bike, power bike, pedelec, assisted bicycle, and power-assisted bicycle only became popular by 2001
eWLg TIL that a professor of medical psychology in New York started hearing a voice in her head in 1965. Her colleague encouraged her to write down what it said. The voice produced 3 volumes of “spiritual psychology,” some of which is written in iambic pentameter.
8nmL TIL: January is named after Janus, the Roman God of two faces, one that looks back to the past and the other that looks forward to the future