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B69D TIL that after the Empire State Building opened in New York City in 1931, much of its office space went unrented. It was nicknamed the “Empty State Building” by New Yorkers and didn’t become profitable until 1950.
Z8rRv Today I learned that during the preparation for the Apollo 11 mission, those going aboard the spacecraft took poetry lessons, to be able to creatively convey what it felt like on the moon.
e0kpJ TIL Liberia is to become the first nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid. Norway will pay the impoverished West African country $150m (£91.4m) to stop deforestation by 2020.
4JYN TIL: A blonde, blue eyed Frenchman convinced 18th-C London that he was from Taiwan. He wrote a best-selling book about his “homeland” filled with bizarre facts, including a fake alphabet and language. He became the most famous “Asian” in England. In other words, the greatest troll of the 1700s.
BbND TIL that someone named their twins Winner and Loser. Winner went on to become a criminal, and Loser became a detective.