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TIL Burj Khalifa (tallest building in the world) was built by Samsung!

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GRW5 TIL There are people working on a tube style transportation device, like Futurama’s. It is called the ET3 and would hopefully travel from LA to NYC in an hour
Eg01d TIL Will Ferrell & Andy Murray played Will Arnett & Andy Roddick in the '09 US Open
eP96 TIL in 2005, the British Medical Journal published a study to investigate the loss of workplace teaspoons
BdBW TIL that at the premiere of Beethoven’s 9th, police had to break up the applause, as the amount he was receiving was considered inappropriate for a private citizen
rNrO1 TIL that actress and singer Julie Andrews, known for her leading roles in 60s movies Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, had her singing voice permanently destroyed in 1997 after a botched vocal cord nodule removal surgery