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TIL of Derinkuyu, the world’s deepest underground city, capable of holding 20,000 inhabitants.

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KpaE TIL that in the 1930s New York city planner Robert Moses deliberately built a number of bridges really low so that only cars could go under it - so as to prevent blacks (who mostly used public transport) from visiting New York’s ‘pristine’ beaches
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nyD9 TIL that Disney almost made a Toy Story 3 without Pixar’s involvement. The story involved Buzz Lightyear toys being recalled for manufacturing defects and being shipped off to Taiwan. The film was almost in production stages before being scrapped by Pixar.
epwyD Today I learned that people with poor eyesight tend to be more intellectually inclined.
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