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TIL the world's largest passenger elevator is in Mumbai, India. It is 278 sq. feet large and can carry 235 passengers

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0wonj TIL a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate exploded in Texas in 1947. It remains the worst industrial accident in US history.
dD7nK TIL that british climber Alan Hinkes had to be air rescued from Nanga Parbat in 1997 when flour from a burnt chapati (a type of flatbread) got up his nose, making him sneeze so violently that he prolapsed a disc. He waited 10 days in agony before being rescued and is since known as the "chapati man"
Elmd TIL that, according to the memoir of a former slave, First Lady Dolley Madison did not save the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington from the British burning it during the War of 1812. Rather, a Frenchman and a gardener saved it, while Dolley just ran off with silver.
R7NV8 TIL of LeBron James' "Promise School" where at-risk students have 8 hour days, a longer school year and receive free meals, bikes, and tuition
dnod TIL the American Civil War began in a man’s front yard and ended about 120 miles away in his new home’s front parlor (he moved to escape the war).