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TIL New York, London, and Paris have fake buildings on residential streets that hide subway vents and other infrastructure. These are essentially facades with no building behind them.

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JYOg1 TIL, the traditional cowboy look arose from Mexican vaqueros and the word buckaroo came about as a mispronunciation of the word vaquero
B7dr TIL that abolitionist & former slave Sojourner Truth, when accused of being a man by a man in the crowd, opened her blouse and after shaking her 59 year old tits at him asked “Want a suck?”
dL9j TIL that BONO is the only human to have been nominated for an Oscar, a Grammy and a Nobel prize
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