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TIL the tallest free-standing tower in the world, the Tokyo Sky Tree, had its final height chosen solely because of wordplay; several numbers were considered because of their alternate meanings, they ended up choosing 634m for “Musashi”

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J1OYk TIL that the Rob Zombie song, “Dragula” is based on the drag racer "DRAG-U-LA" from the sitcom The Munsters.
QJE8E TIL in 2006 a Washington woman filed for public assistance and was taken to court because 4 different maternity tests claimed she was not the true mother of her children. Turns out she had absorbed her twin in the womb and her reproductive organs have different DNA than the rest of her body!
oBXjo TIL that Kalmykia is the only Buddhist majority republic in Europe
wRN7 TIL the world’s longest place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one”.
Wpm4 TIL: Bill Nye’s father was in a POW camp for four years during WWII