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oBO7K TIL about the World's Littlest Skycraper, a building for which investors were given a blueprint measured in inches rather than feet. The promoter then ran off with the money after a building 12 times too small was constructed.
0w57L TIL That Soviet Marshal Zhukov had Coca Cola make a special clear, unlabeled version for him so he wouldn't be seen drinking an "American imperialist symbol" after the Second World War
QB0X TIL: A porn parody was made of the show “Community”, but not released because the producers didn’t think enough people were aware of the source material
nWPaG TIL that, using money earned from a 1961 biography of his brother Ernest, Leicester Hemingway created a micronation called New Atlantis on a 240 square foot raft off the coast of Jamaica, where he lived with his wife and young children. It lasted five years before it was destroyed in a storm.
VMn6D TIL about the Kadupul flower, a flower is priceless due to that dies almost immediately after being picked, it's scent has a soothing nature and is referred to as a "midnight miracle"