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TIL in 2008, more than 200 marijuana plants were found growing inside Miami’s Mall of the Americas.

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XE5VE TIL that a jazz musician named Teri Pall invented a version of the cordless phone in 1965 but could not market her invention, as its 2-mile range caused its radio signals to interfere with aircraft communications.
WknmY TIL of the "national bathtub", a mass execution during the French Revolution when thousands of suspected royalists were drowned in the river Loire. At first, the perpetrators carried the drownings at night to avoid suspicion, but the dozen of floating bodies in the following days gave them away.
kOBaB TIL Kanye West once refused to continue performing because two members of the audience wouldn’t rise to their feet. Both fans had disabilities that made it impossible to stand.
1ayAW TIL of the oldest human structure. Predating Mesopotamian civilization and Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Gobekli Tepe. Researchers determined a pillar (pillar 43) depicts a comet colliding with Earth over 10,000 years ago causing a millennia of global cooling.
7BbX TIL that some older PCs would play Für Elise through their motherboard speakers to indicate hardware failure. Other tunes occasionally heard included “It’s a Small, Small World” and “Eye of the Tiger.”