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TIL 40% of workers in New York masturbate while on the job

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awmmM TIL: There's a skyscraper with a Ferris wheel built in. The first-of-its-kind ride is mounted over 300 feet above street level. Plans for the project fell through and the building currently stands empty.
LrGV TIL that during World War 1, New Zealand raised an army of 100,000 men, from a population of just over a million people.
l9x7 TIL the United States left the Afghanistan government with almost $1 billion in high-tech airplanes that they don’t know how to use.
Egy9X TIL that adults have 206 bones, while babies start out with around 305. Bones fuse together as we grow, which is why we end up with fewer bones than we had at birth, with a quarter of our bones being in our feet.
Oo8bL TIL violent crime in New York City has been dropping since 1991 and as of 2017, is among the lowest of major cities in the United States. In 2017, there were 290 homicides, the lowest number since the 1940s.