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TIL: Graffiti is Plural. Graffito is the singular form

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e0gXg TIL that in 1978, and architecture student discovered the Citigroup Center in NYC was susceptible to strong winds due to it being on stilts. Renovations to address the issue were done during a newspaper strike at night while employees were at home. This work was largely unkown unknown until 1995!
nWavb TIL that Jerry Lawler of WWE fame was actually good friends with comedian Andy Kaufman. He notoriously feuded with Kaufman, wrestling him and slapping him on TV while Kaufman shouted profanities and threw coffee in his face. Later, as himself in Man on the Moon, he stated that his feud was staged.
GAKGJ TIL The largest living organism on Earth is not a whale or a tree but a fungus called Armillaria ostoyae, also known as the "humongous fungus," which spans over 2,385 acres in Oregon's Malheur National Forest.