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TIL the US Bank Tower, the tallest building west of the Mississippi, has installed a 70-story-high glass “Skyslide” that allows people to slide from the 70th floor to the 69th floor on the outside of the building, about 1,000 feet above ground.

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ABY4 TIL a Soviet soccer player was so popular that when he was sent to the Siberian gulags during Stalin’s Great Purge in the 1930s, he was treated rather well as the gulag commanders were also his fans, who gave him better quarters and food rations, and was even asked to coach the local teams.
QNRnL TIL that prisoners in a Russian penal colony near Moscow used a cat to smuggle drugs. The cat was found with 5.79 grams of hashish and 1.56 grams of amphetamine hidden under its collar. Both the defense and prosecution lawyers wanted to use the cat as evidence to support their cases.
woG4P TIL- If you kill an ant that’s infesting your home, they will release pheromones and act as a calling card for more ants to come into your home to recover their bodies and investigate the danger.
LkM6Q TIL that former Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff Baxter is also a missile defense consultant for the United States government
QNJxa TIL the average house cat can hit a top speed of around 30 miles per hour