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TIL there is a town in Wisconsin called Random Lake. It contains a lake called Random Lake.

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pyje TIL that Time Magazine honored Pikachu as one of the “best people” in 1999.
M7MY0 TIL: The concept of steganography which is the hiding of messages in plain sight. For example, Phyllis Latour Doyle (British spy) parachuted into France to spy on Nazis before D-day. She used knitting to record messages.
0wOBL TIL about Memory of Mankind, a sophisticated time capsule project in Austria designed to last a million years. The designers made a system for the capsule to be discovered by a future society and even planned for the possibility of it being discovered by alien life.
AGwg TIL architects designed an ‘Earthscraper’ in response to a 10-story height limit on buildings in Mexico City. Reaching 1000 feet deep and shaped like a inverted pyramid, pedestrians walking over its transparent top ('base’) would be able to look down toward the bottom ('peak’) of the structure.
7gQX TIL the SNES and Sega Genesis had unofficial online capabilities too, but the service was discontinued due to lack of demand.