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TIL about Milan's Vertical forest residencial towers

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nKD9 TIL that the first ‘moving staircase’ or escalator was built in 1898 at a Harrods store in London. Riders found the escalator so nerve racking that an employee stood at the top offering brandy so they could recover from the ordeal.
69MG8 TIL Sherpas mitochondria operates more efficiently in low oxygen environments than non-Sherpa ethnicities. This adaptation likely helps them thrive in the low-oxygen environment of the Himalayas.
P1DMn TIL: Morocco is the only country in Africa to have a high-speed rail system and it opened in 2018.
oBEAo TIL a Mellified man is a person mummified in honey. They would often eat honey till they died, buried in honey, dug up a century later to be eaten for medicinal purposes
P1bdJ TIL that the Norden Bombsight used by US Bomber aircraft in WWII cost $1.1 billion to research and produce, about half as much as the Manhattan Project and over a quarter of the cost of all B-17 bombers manufactured. While successfully precise in Stateside testing it was far less accurate in combat.