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TIL that saturns rings are only ~33 feet thick

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KYlJR TIL that In 2011, a Chinese construction company called Broad Sustainable Building built a 30-story hotel called the T30 in just 15 days in the city of Hunan. See comments for the rest.
XEPOD TIL of an anxiety disorder called Agoraphobia which causes you to have extreme fear of places. If it’s severe enough, you may not even be able to leave your home. You may not be able to visit with family and friends, go to school or work, run errands, or take part in other normal daily activities.
mxgOp TIL about the Zambian Space Program of the 1960’s whose goal was going to Mars with a “Spacegirl”, two cats, and a Christian missionary.
1aAkV TIL that a McDonald’s in Sedona, Arizona has its arches painted turquoise blue instead of the typical “Golden Arches”. The reason for this is because Sedona has strict rules concerning buildings in hopes that the colors don’t clash with the town’s surrounding natural scenery.
gMDRy TIL about Robert Kahn, a Jew who was forced to play his violin for Nazis while they held his parents and ransacked his home in 1938. Later, he hid the violin. He fled the Nazis, served in the US Army in WW2 and, years later, retrieved the violin from hiding, but never played it again.