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TIL that the Forbidden City, built in 1420, was so well-designed that it withstood over 200 earthquakes and can withstand one with magnitude 10.1 on the Richter scale.

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OoLWe Today I learned that in the 1880s, a young man named Larry Donovan attempted to make a living solely by jumping off high bridges. When he died at the age of 26, his mother was quoted in the newspaper saying: "I told him that jumping off bridges was a poor way of earning a living."
Zpo TIL that the guitar playing in the show Metalocalypse is animated %100 accurately. What the animated characters on the show are fretting actually corresponds to the notes they’re playing.
4XaYa TIL a village in far east India where around 50000 Amur falcons were hunted every roosting season till 2012 has now become 'Falcon Capital of the World' and migrating population has quadrupled from 2012 level.
YpoR7 TIL Jim Henson originally wanted the Muppets to be for adults and didn't see his characters as a vehicle for children's education and family entertainment. Indeed, he first envisioned something closer to South Park rather than Sesame Street and in the 1950s they did dark comedy in commercials.
LOvr TIL in the early 1900s, a Kansas doctor performed over 16,000 procedures replacing impotent men’s testicles with goat testicles, believing it would not only restore their sexual virility, but also cure 27 other ailments, ranging from dementia to emphysema to flatulence.