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TIL that MetLife had plans to build what would be the tallest building in NYC, even the tallest in the world, but construction was halted due to the Great Depression and the “short, unfinished” version still stands today.

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5Yj5P TIL about the Battalion Zośka, made up primarily of outlawed Polish boy scouts and girl scouts. They were responsible for the liberation of the Gęsiówka concentration camp from the Nazis in 1944. The rescued Jews went on to join these young scouts in their instrumental role in the Warsaw Uprising.
XENl8 TIL the classic Kong dog toy was created after an auto-repair shop owner's dog kept chewing a VW Bus suspension part
J1aav TIL Harrison Ford flew to France to give Roman Polanski his Oscar
Bgred TIL A fluorocarbon called perfluorohexane has both enough oxygen and carbon dioxide with enough space between the molecules that animals submerged in the liquid can still breath normally.
rNJ84 TIL that from 1170 to 1512, "The Neck Verse" could save one from punishment for almost any crime in England. Literate accusees, or criminals who had simply memorised Psalm 51:3, would recite it to claim the "Benefit of Clergy", meaning they would be tried by the much more lenient church courts.