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TIL a Berlin-based artist tricked Google Maps into thinking that a completely empty street was bursting with traffic by filling a wagon with 99 smartphones, opening Maps navigation on all of them, and then slowly pulling the wagon along Berlin streets.

by whatilearned October 3, 2022, 12:05 pm

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I used to think paying for public restrooms was weird too, until Berlin.

by CopyPastaArchive August 31, 2022, 3:19 pm

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Good thing Kennedy was in Berlin when he made his famous speech,

by cringeyjokesman July 16, 2022, 9:58 am

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TIL: The claim that the German public did not know about the concentration camps’ atrocities, generally made by Germans after Berlin fell in 1945 and accepted by most historians is false. Most of what happened in the camps were spread through German news in a process of “desensitization”.

by whatilearned June 20, 2022, 4:57 pm

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TIL some scholars believe Cleopatra’s own handwriting translating to “Make it happen!” appears at the end of a papyrus document granting financial rights to a Roman absentee landlord. The document is currently in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin.

by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 5:58 pm

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TIL On April 12, 1945, just days before the Battle for Berlin began. The Berlin Philharmonic had one last concert where cyanide pills and pamphlets on how to hang oneself in the least painless way were handed out by members of the Hitler youth.

by whatilearned June 2, 2022, 6:55 am

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TIL of SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin. A German football club who, after the only other team in Berlin were kicked out the league got an unexpected promotion to the top league. The German FA wanted to keep a club in the city of Berlin for political reasons. They remain the worst team in Bundesliga history.

by whatilearned May 4, 2022, 12:09 pm

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TIL that when David Bowie died in 2016, the German government thanked him for a concert he held in Berlin in 1987, stating it was a major reason Berlin was unified and tore down the Berlin wall.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 5:42 pm

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TIL of the 1925 dystopian novel ‘Berlin Without Jews’. In the book, a far-right nationalist political party takes power and expels all Jews from Germany, while society at large does nothing to stop them. When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the author committed suicide.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 4:43 pm

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TIL up until 2020, the North Korean embassy in Berlin operated a budget hotel on their premises, “popular with backpackers” until it was forced to close down.

by whatilearned March 23, 2022, 9:15 am

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TIL a 19 year old East German stole a 10 ton Soviet armored personnel carrier and drove full-speed into the Berlin Wall, got caught in barbered wire and shot twice before West German bar patrons rescued him.

by whatilearned March 3, 2022, 5:03 am

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How long did it take to restore the Berlin underground after WWII?

by HistoryBuff February 24, 2022, 6:26 pm

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