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TIL of “spite houses,” buildings constructed solely to irritate and spite neighbors.

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GAyx5 TIL The New York Times tech writer, David Pogue was given 1 of 4 iPhones to ever leave Apple [2007] and lost it in a taxicab
m6ox TIL that India’s richest man lives in a 27-story 400,000 sq ft tower with 4 family members and 600 staff. The 550ft tall building contains a 168-car garage spanning 6 floors, 9 elevators, 4 stories of hanging gardens, a 50-seat theater, an artificial snow room, and 3 helipads, valued at $2bn USD.
9YYgQ TIL McDonalds has sold over 100 billion burgers, selling to 68 million people per day, which is more than the entire population of the UK. They sell 75 hamburgers per second globally.
1lD4 TIL there is a water vapor cloud in space which has 100 trillion times the amount of water present on Earth.
MeRy8 TIL that "old-person" smell is real. And there's "middle-aged person" and "young-person" smell as well.