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TIL to save time for workers constructing the new World Trade Center, a Subway restaurant pod was put on hydraulic legs next to tower cranes so that it could be moved up the building as it was built.

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gjaA TIL the Rick Ross you know is actually an impostor of the real Rick Ross who, went to jail for 20 years for trafficking drugs (millions and millions), and when he came out, discovered someone was making millions pretending to be him.
gr0BW TIL about the uniquly designed magic roundabout in Swindon, UK which has consistently ranked in the top four worst roundabouts in various survies and studies. It has an outer main circle that carries traffic clockwise and five mini-roundabouts connected to it that carry traffic anti-clockwise.
nRgP TIL In 2012, British supermarket Sainsbury’s discovered that reducing the size of a toilet paper tube from 123mm to 112mm would allow more rolls in each truck, taking 500 trucks off the road and reducing carbon emissions by 140 tonnes.
X0Mdr TIL that the highest score in a football match was a Madagascar championship match. 149-0, and 148 of those were own goals
pY4MO TIL that divorce is illegal in two places in the world: Philippines (except Muslims who have the right to divorce) and the Vatican City, an ecclesiastical sovereign city-state, which has no procedure for divorce.