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TIL The Ghermezian brothers was inspired by the traditional bazaars that existed in Persian cultures and wanted to build the “Disney World of shopping malls”. They saw their West Edmonton Mall as “ninth wonder of the world” and it had a theme park named Fantasyland until they got sued by Disney

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6EyxZ TIL a mixture of sugar water does NOT save a dying bee
8ePaK TIL the 1991 eruption of Mt.Pinatubo in the Philippines triggered a "volcanic winter" that lowered the earth's temperature, causing unusually cold weather in the northern hemisphere for a few years afterwards.
78rLO TIL that Jamaica in NYC and Jamaica in the Caribbean are derived from unrelated words. The neighborhood in Queens, NYC, is named from the Lenape word "Yameco," or Beaver, while the island of Jamaica got its name from the Arawak word "Xaymaca," meaning Land of Wood and Water.
OoEwR TIL during WW1 the Royal Navy essentially dragged a flotilla overland to check German dominance of a strategically important African lake.
KYwpB TIL whiskers can spontaneously grow from tin and several other metals, sometimes causing catastrophic damage within electrical circuits. NASA has a team dedicated to investigating this risk, but the fundamental cause of “whiskering” has still not been discovered.