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TIL the Pentagon is the world's largest office building, by office space and employees

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x665g TIL of Juliet Prowse, who was engaged to Frank Sinatra, had an affair with Elvis, and was the first ever guest on The Muppet Show
X0V0Q TIL That, in 1991, the Bryan Adams song "Everything I Do" (which had reached #1 worldwide) was declared to be not sufficiently Canadian by the regulatory body CRTC denying it more frequent airplay in Canada. This despite Adams being made a member of the Order of Canada in 1990.
lorYA TIL NASA officially banned consuming Alcohol in space in 1972 after sherry was proposed for Skylab meals, but it never really went away. “NASA will tell you there is no alcohol aboard the ISS” says astronaut Clayton Anderson. “As a person who lived there for five months, I’ll tell you that’s bogus."
YpbpW TIL there are no regulations on what side the fuel tank door is on cars, it’s simply chosen by how the car is put together.
b9m0j TIL dogs were first domesticated in southern China, and that all modern dog breeds are the descendants of ancient Chinese wolves.