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TIL of the ‘Peggy Martin’ rose, that survived two weeks under 20’ of saltwater after Hurricane Katrina

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E1XGP TIL 6 students were killed after falling near UC Berkeley when their balcony sheared off. It emerged that the contractors who built the complex had paid $26.5 million in settlements for previous defect cases, but the information had not been available to the state construction licensing authorities.
opbr TIL that the Chinese word for sodium(钠) is pronounced “Na”
4kgxa TIL Maria Rasputin (the daughter of Grigori Rasputin, the infamous mystic and close friend of Russia's last czar) immigrated to the U.S. and joined the cirus as a lion tamer.
wLBO8 TIL That the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel died of Tuberculosis at the age of 26 and did most of his major work in a span of about 7 years while living in poverty. The equivalent of the Nobel prize in the field of mathematics; the Abel prize, is named after him.
DQp7P TIL LaGuardia Airport was built on the site of a former amusement park owned by piano manufacturer William Steinway.