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TIL the “call of the void” is the name of a common feeling you experience when you are in a high place and get thoughts of jumping when you do not actually want to jump

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x6KBB TIL there is a secret hall in Mount Rushmore referred to as the “Hall of Records” containing 16 porcelain tablets for future generations
x6P8b TIL Potatoes boulangère gets its name from an old practice in French villages, where householders without their own ovens would take the prepared dish to the village bakery. After the baker had finished making his bread, the potato dish would cook slowly while the oven gradually died down
wJ7P TIL there are only 2 escalators in the entire state of Wyoming
16MAV TIL that, until 1998, a Member of Parliament had wear a top hat to raise a point of order in the House of Commons.
M7eJB TIL: After seeing The Doors perform in 1967, Iggy Pop was inspired to push the boundaries of his stage performance. He was one of the first musicians to stage dive. On several occasions, he took massive amounts of drugs, exposed himself, rolled around in glass, cut himself, and threw objects.