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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.

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0ddWN TIL that Rod Stewart had such terrible stage fright during his first concert in America that he hid behind the amplifiers while singing. It took a shot of brandy to get him out. Decades later, he set the record for playing at the largest free rock concert in history, in front of 3.5 million people.
6Eeom TIL there is a law that states every high school in New Zealand may hold one pound of uranium and one pound of thorium for conducting nuclear experiments, but they will be fined $1,000,000 should there be a nuclear explosion.
P5JL TIL there is only one species of cactus that can be found naturally occurring outside the Americas
b9RgZ TIL on February 5, 1919, Hollywood heavyweights Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith joined forces to create their own film studio, which they called the United Artists Corporation.
5QbP TIL When Andrew W.K. was 17, he wrote a love song for a crush, earning him a juvenile restraining order.