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TIL That one of the legs of The Stratosphere in Las Vegas has a bend in it that doesn’t affect structural integrity

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D1ABg TIL documents presented by a Pakistani official were found to forged because they were written in Calibri supposedly in 2006, but Calibri was only included in Microsoft Office 2007
b6ZMQ TIL that we have the skull of Mary Magdalene housed in a basilica in France. It was found in 1279 with a wooden tablet wrapped in wax that said, “Hic requiescit magdelenae corpus Mariae,” Latin for, “Here lies the body of Mary Magdalene.”
Bjjy TIL the Star Wars Cantina song is a genre called “Jizz” and the players are “Jizz Wailers”
Myem TIL in the 1990s, a national survey found that Mario was more recognizable to American children than Mickey Mouse
VMGJQ TIL of the Interregnum period in Transjordan in 1920 where, for about a year, the region had no ruler or occupying power. Locals even wrote letters to nearby Sharif Hussein to send "one of his sons" to rule it.