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TIL Frank Llyod Wright designed the first open office space in 1906

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nebwd TIL In 1903, H. Nelson Jackson, Sewall Crocker, and their dog Bud made the first successful transcontinental automobile trip. The journey was arduous and slow, but their trip made headlines wherever they went, proving that long-distance road travel was a real—if expensive and difficult—possibility.
L0B0 TIL There is a chemical reaction that produces a tree-like formation of Silver. Many philosophers believed it could be “Life in the kingdom of minerals.”
Wrrd TIL in 1954 the USA overthrew the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. It installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed dictators who ruled Guatemala.
1yd7 TIL When the Spanish arrived in the Yucatan peninsula the first Spanish explorers asked what the area was called and the response they received, “Yucatan,” was a Yucatec Maya word meaning “I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
KYBB9 TIL The algae, Caulerpa taxifolia, has been identified as the largest known single-celled organism. Found underwater, it can grow up to several meters long- even though it's technically just one cell.