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b9LRp TIL about Nara Dreamland, a theme park that sought to be Japan's Disneyland and even had some creative input from Walt Disney himself. It operated from 1961 to 2006, at which point it sat abandoned for a decade, before finally being demolished in 2017.
dkQQ TIL in 2013, Jeremy Runnells, a 6th generation Mormon, compiled a list of concerns he had about Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and church history. The church never responded to his questions, but his research went viral and has caused many to question and subsequently leave the church.
p8bYA TIL that Minoru Yamasaki, the architect who designed the original World Trade Center towers had a fear of heights. This fear influenced the design of the buildings which is why the window columns were only 18 inches apart.
9wNZQ TIL MI6 believed Saddam Hussein was continuing to produce WMDs based on information provided by a false agent who based his reports using scenes from the movie The Rock
VBdEB TIL of Henry Trigg, a 17th century grocer whose will requested to have his body placed in a coffin in his barn's rafters. Copies of his will were sold, and WWI soldiers later stole his bones. A horse-riding school replaced them with horse bones, explaining that having no bones would lose revenue.