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TIL Goldin Finance 117, an unfinished skyscraper in Tianjin, China. The tower was expected to be built to a total height of 597 m. Construction began in 2008 but was twice halted, and it remains unfinished and unoccupied

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x6Koo TIL of "Soundies" which were 3-minute musical films played on a jukebox in the 1940s and were considered a precursor to music videos. Over 1,800 of these mini-films were made but declined due to wartime material restrictions.
oR4ro TIL The Red Hook Society for the Apprehension and Detention of Horse Thieves, the oldest horse thief apprehension and detention society in the USA, has never apprehended or detained a single horse thief.
QNyGL TIL that through a combination of using limes instead of lemons, long term storage of the juice, and exposure to copper the scurvy-prevention power of citrus juice was nullified and scurvy saw a resurgence in the arctic and antarctic explorations of the late 1800s and early 1900s
jNEyj TIL of Benjamin Lay, an 18th century Quaker dwarf with a hunchback who challenged the ideas of slavery, meat-eating, and racism. He also lived in a cave with his wife. (There is truly a lid for every pot.)
Eo17 TIL Stone Age Europeans are thought to have created brief “gifs”, by drawing two versions of an image, one over the other, on cave walls. The flickering of a torch light would “animate” the image