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TIL when exposed to chilly weather, tall structures like towers and skyscrapers can shrink down several inches, but when things heat up they extend back to their full size.

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p8Vdp TIL, In 1963, George Harrison was asked by executives at a party if there were any decent groups to sign, he replied "you want to get The Rolling Stones"
PYWew TIL supermodel Naomi Campbell once co-founded a restaurant called Fashion Café. The menu included a $20 salad with 2 tomato slices, a glass of champagne and a pack of cigarettes. The restaurant flopped.
p8wlG TIL Cellophane, the clear plastic used to wrap food, is biodegradable and produced from wood pulp
KONQG TIL about Tim Friede, who has endured 200 snakebites and 700 injections of lethal snake venom, in an attempt to immunise himself against snakebites and then offer scientists his blood to make a universal antivenom.
OGedg TIL in 1967, a documentary filmmaker was shot and killed while filming a miner in Kentucky by the owner of the rented house where the miner lived. The killing was motivated by the growing resentment of journalists who descended upon Appalachia to document living conditions during the War on Poverty.