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TIL an elevator with 6 people fell 84 floors in a Chicago skyscraper in 2018. All survived.

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wL1aY TIL that the 1932 film "I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang" helped bring an end to the widespread use of chain gangs in the American South.
gM514 TIL in Renaissance Italy courtesans were known as cortigiana or "courtier". These women were well-educated more so than women of nobility & simultaneously artists, dancers & singers. These women were often treated as equals to women of nobility.
VBVnB TIL American Men are getting married more than American Women because American Men are not marrying American Women
gMVOy TIL a man robbed The Ballagio Casino of $1m in poker chips - that he could only spend at the Bellagio. In a matter of weeks weeks he was down to $20K, spending his winnings on OxyContin, more gambling, and one night a four-hour hand job.
dD4W9 TIL Basic oxygen steelmaking was invented by just one man; the Swiss engineer Robert Durrer in 1948. Durrer's technique accounts for 60% of all steel production as of 2000. additionally, since 1920 the labor requirements to produce steel have decreased by a factor of 1,000.