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TIL in 1997 an artist named Howard Hallis started drawing a literal “Picture of Everything”, which features several thousand people and items, both real and imaginary.

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oBO7K TIL about the World's Littlest Skycraper, a building for which investors were given a blueprint measured in inches rather than feet. The promoter then ran off with the money after a building 12 times too small was constructed.
EgEoW TIL that Ransom E. Olds created the first mass-produced car, the Oldsmobile Curved Dash. After being forced out of the company, he founded another company based on his initials, REO. They created a car that was the ancestor of the pickup truck, called the Speed Wagon.
4kMK5 TIL the character of Dazzler from the X-Men was the creation of a partnership between Marvel and Casablanca Records. This project would've also included a film featuring comedian Rodney Dangerfield and label's acts like Kiss, Village People, Cher and Donna Summer but it was eventually shelved.
nJNY TIL that since the introduction of atomic time, leap seconds became necessary, resulting in a minute with 61 seconds.. There are approximately 8 leap seconds every decade.
gMn9L TIL in 1991 Isaac Wright Jr. was wrongfully convicted of being a drug kingpin in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison. While in prison, he studied law to pursue his own appeal and extracted a confession of police misconduct from the detective responsible for his conviction, exonerating Wright.