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TIL the Empire State Building’s spire was originally designed to be a mooring mast for Zeppelin airships

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9YPLm TIL that in the Rosenstrasse protests in 1943 during the middle of WWII, thousands of non-Jewish German women protested the deportation of their Jewish husbands to the concentration camps. The protests were successful, but it was the only mass protest in Nazi Germany against the deportation of Jews.
N75PE TIL: The average person can see around 1 million colors but tetrachromats, people with a fourth cone, can perceive around 100 million
oBeaW TIL About Vincent Louis Gigante, an American mob boss who feigned insanity for 30 years to escape prosecution. Called “The Oddfather” and “The Enigma in the Bathrobe” by the press, he often wandered the streets of New York’s Village in his bathrobe and slippers, mumbling incoherently to himself.
PYJ1n TIL: Eddie Veder has an 1850s pump organ he plays in his house
4Eew TIL there was Russian novel published in 1999 which re-tells The Lord of The Rings from Sauron’s Perpective