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TIL Lego started by copying their product and designs from Hilary Fisher Page's Kiddicraft Blocks, eventually driving him to suicide after his company was ruined

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gMvbb TIL "Bird shit architecture" is a trend in urban planning that originated in the 1950's and persists to the present day. This type of architecture is designed to look good from a plane, but not practical for the actual residents of a city, like Brasilia
R5pA6 TIL about Mónica Macías, the daughter of Equatorial Guinea's first president, and who was partially raised by North Korea's first leader Kim Il Sung
grV14 TIL that British mathematician Lord Kelvin was so confident in his abilities, he once is said to have sent a servant to find out who was the second-highest scoring student in a mathematical competition at the University of Cambridge. The servant returned and replied "You were, sir".
ZpxBa TIL that the founder of Rolex had no children. Today all of Rolex's excess profits go to charity
RB64 TIL Bob Dole’s website from his 1996 presidential campaign is still online