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TIL that during the rebuild of the World Trade Centre, a 30-min lunch break actually ran much longer as workers had to wait for elevators to ferry them up and down. To accommodate these workers, Subway created a mobile restaurant that moved up the building as they finished each floor.

0dNej TIL There's a Japanese restaurant where guests are served by employed monkeys
d8ky9 TIL: Godzilla's roar was created by dragging a resin-coated leather glove along the loosened strings of a double bass.
y7Aa TIL If you remove a pain-detecting gene in mice, their lifespan increases by 10%
Y7JdZ TIL Vikings originated the original acapella rap battles called "flyting"
MAxK TIL Mount Everest is growing by 2.5 inches per year