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TIL building codes in South Florida require exterior doors to swing outwards because it offers better protection against hurricanes. It was enacted after Hurricane Andrew.

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XD9k TIL that the song “Here Comes the Bride” was originally part of an opera about mass murder
NXwgN TIL of Lost City a robust ancient Ancestral Puebloan city in Nevada that was rediscovered in late 1800s that was knowingly flooded and lost due to the Hoover Dam construction and creation of the Lake Mead reservoir
LkGV TIL Freddie Mercury’s album “Mr Bad Guy” was dedicated “to my cat Jerry- also Tom, Oscar and Tiffany, and all the cat lovers across the universe- screw everybody else”
dDkn9 TIL a Japanese submarine used to attack Sydney Australia was later painted yellow by college students inspired by the Beatles song
p8LMb TIL of Flossie Wong-Staal, a pioneering HIV/AIDS researcher who performed nucleotide sequencing on HIV to map its entire genetic makeup and to elucidate its many variations. Such research helped improve the medical outlook for millions of HIV/AIDS patients around the world.