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TIL that the coloration of the windows of one of MIT’s dorms, Simmons Hall, correlates with the amount of structural stress at each segment of the wall.

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N7xwM TIL about an actual "Sleeping Beauty" in that there's a 99 year old (100 this coming December) perfectly preserved body of a 1 year old, named Rosalia Lombardo. She died of Pneumonia in 1920 & filled with grief, her father enlisted Alfredo Salafia to embalm her body so she can be preserved forever.
gMO1b TIL Architects tried to raise $2.9 billion to build Minas Tirith, the city in "Lord of the Rings"
p8rK8 TIL about "Brazilian Schindler"; Souza Dantas, an ambassador from Brazil in nazi-occupied France in 1940's, risked his life giving visas to hundreds of jews and others. Against the will of the Brazilian government at the time, he saved around 800 people from certain death.
R7BK4 TIL After publishing his 1953 National Book Award winning debut novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison got to work on his second novel. In 1967 the manuscript of his already-overdue second novel was destroyed in a fire in his home. Ellison did not publish another novel before he died in 1994
QNEkX TIL Honey is the only natural food that never spoils.