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TIL A Group of Owls Is Called A Parliament

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nWElP TIL the first elevator shaft was built in The Cooper Union - four years before the first passenger elevator was even built
ojkR TIL A Swedish woman filed a police complaint for harassment when a man she rejected farted before leaving her home. Police dismissed the case and said: “It’s impossible to prove that he wanted to pass particularly smelly wind on purpose.”
69gPZ TIL that the Ottoman Empire had a de jure vassal in Xinjiang between 1865 and 1877 called Yettishar
kkdg TIL there exists a cave so massive that it has its own weather system
R5NVQ TIL that one of the world’s largest species of cockroach is rightfully named “M. Longipennis”