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JYxKl TIL Stalin demolished a Moscow cathedral to make way for a “Palace of the Soviets”, which would have been the world’s tallest building, but WWII halted construction after only the foundation had been excavated. Eventually, the foundation pit was converted into the world’s largest outdoor pool.
1ayjO TIL the last words of William Chapman, who was unarmed with his hands up before being shot by a cop in front of a Wal-Mart were reportedly "Are you going to fucking shoot me?"
dBjE TIL gruntled is a word, and it is the opposite of the word disgruntled.
x6lxB TIL General Motors created an electric car in the 90s to comply with California clean air regulations, after it proved far more popular than expected they shut down the program and against the protests of their customers reclaimed all the existing EVs and crushed them and buried them in the desert.
WkWod TIL that the phrase “live in the boonies” comes from the word Boondocks which in turn comes from the Philippine (Tagalog) word Bundok which means mountains, or an out of the way rural area.