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TIL the main point of a water tower is to provide water pressure, rather than water.

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8e7B4 TIL that the Sultan of Morocco proposed a joint Anglo-Moroccan invasion of the West Indies that would expel Spain from the Caribbean and place their former colonies under joint Moroccan-English rule. Queen Elizabeth was intrigued but both she and the Sultan died in 1603, scuttling any plans.
jQYR TIL Alexander the Great’s father had 3000 POWs executed by “ritual drowning.”
7rAOr TIL The Mackinac Bridge has drivers who will drive your vehicle over the bridge for you if you're not comfortable with it.
8epDZ TIL that the widely accepted "Learning Styles" theory "everyone has a different learning style (visual, auditory, reading/writing, kinesthetic)" has almost no experimental data behind it. The few researches done on the subject proved the opposite.
R0Rl TIL that the death-sentanced murderer Joseph Paul Jernigan donated his body to science in 1994, and was then sliced horizontally into 1mm pieces for the purpose of creating a detailed data set of cross-sectional photographs of the human body.