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TIL the history of this iconic design known as "jazz"

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nWj97 TIL some skyscrapers have 150 ton swinging balls at the top for stability, equivalent to 30 elephants
epDVL TIL about lipograms: written work in which a particular letter is intentionally omitted. Ernest Wright wrote his 1939 novel Gadsby without the letter "e," and his book was 50,000 words long.
yVLbe TIL Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (whose family had fled the Nazi occupation during WWII) was born in an Ottawa hospital where it was temporarily declared extraterritorial by the Canadian government, so that the newborn would only inherit Dutch citizenship and not be a British subject.
9nV6 TIL that in December 1979 a man was killed by a flying lawnmower at a Jets game.
rNa0y TIL in 2011 Abercrombie & Fitch offered Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino (from ‘Jersey Shore’) $10,000 not to wear the company's clothes because they felt it would cause “significant damage” to their image.