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TIL The international parking sign was first designed for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam

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e1M4 TIL a half-jewish man was used in Nazi recruitment posters and dubbed “the ideal German soldier”, before being kicked out for being too Jewish.
X0agr TIL Cadbury's stopped being British in 2010! Am I living under a rock or what