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TIL A developer illegally demolished a home in San Francisco, only to have the city tell him to build an exact replica of the previous structure.

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woXNY TIL Egon Hanfstaengl, whose parents had been close acquaintances with Hitler in the 1920s, became a sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II
9QQB TIL Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, landed next to an unsuspecting farmer, and told him “I am a friend, comrades, a friend!”
E1e7p TIL the USSR used a nuclear bomb to put out a gas well fire.
00yv TIL Ray Bradbury attributed his habit of daily writing to an encounter as a child with a carnival entertainer, Mr. Electrico, who touched Bradbury on the nose with an electrified sword, made his hair stand on end, and shouted, “Live forever!” Bradbury wrote every single day of his life thereafter.
LwAV TIL that in 2007 the British Army was forced to deny that they had released man-eating badgers into Iraq.