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TIL an untouched apartment in Paris opened after 70 years had a painting worth $3.4M

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N7AP8 TIL that Ethiopia, a country in Eastern Africa, has a population of 110 million people and is twice the size of the US state of Texas
yQkOM TIL that in a creative writing assignment titled "Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapses", a student at a local High School predicted the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse on November 6, 1940. The bridge collapsed November 7, 1940.
dLpQ TIL on June 29, 1995, a department store in Seoul, Korea collapsed, killing 500 people. During construction, the owner insisted on adding an unauthorized 6th floor with a swimming pool. When his engineers protested, they were fired.
d8nn9 TIL: In parts of the Caucasus Mountains highlands, some 1,000-year-old stone tower-fort homes built by the isolated Svan warriors are still being lived in. "The turbulent history of the region ensured that these fortifications remained in use long after similar defenses become redundant elsewhere."
XEwYQ TIL there is no official difference between a hill and a mountain