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TIL that the Empire State Building, built in 1930 was designed with the ability for an Airship/Zeppelin to dock at the very top of the skyscraper, overlooking all of NYC.

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QJQNM TIL the 99 cent pricing first became popular in the nineteenth century, shortly after the invention of the cash register. The pricing ensured that the cashier was forced to ring-in the transaction to create a record of it and return change to reduce the risk of the cashier stealing from the store.
ep65g TIL that 54,000 tennis balls are used at Wimbledon each year.
v5yR TIL That every British Monarch from 1399 to present day is a direct descendant of the Irish king Brian Boru
LprP TIL - Bitcoins were developed by an anonymous software designer who called himself Satoshi Nakamoto. In 2010 he turned over the source code and disappeared. Nakamoto is believed to be in possession of roughly one million Bitcoin. In December 2013, this was the equivalent of $1.1B
0yYL TIL in 1975 a county clerk in Colorado issued a same-sex marriage license, finding no law that forbade it. When a man came to her office to marry his horse in protest, she determined the 8-year-old horse was too young to get married without parental consent and refused the license.