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TIL of the ‘Highest Court in the Land (USA)’, a basketball court on the fifth floor of the Supreme Court Building which is three floors above the Supreme Court.

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A5Vg TIL that when concentration camps were liberated, the Allied military government of Germany forced many homosexuals to finish their sentences and refused to recognize them as victims of Nazi persecution.
nx4W TIL There are constructed words used to illustrate irregularities in English spelling. For instance: “Ghoughpteighbteau” could be pronounced “Potato”
9YWmG TIL, fresh snow absorbs sound, lowering ambient noise over a landscape because the trapped air between snowflakes attenuate vibration. That’s why it gets so quiet when it snows
6ZjZ TIL Coal fired power stations emit 100x more radiation than Nuclear power stations
kjD1 TIL In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’. At the time it was called “the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web”