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TIL there is a city in Alaska where most of the residents live in one big building which also houses many of its public facilities.

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BrPEk TIL that there's a historical period officially referred to as the Pornocracy. 904 AD-906 AD was a super corrupt time for the Papacy and later scholars called it the Pornocracy, the Hetaerocracy, or the Rule of Harlots. (The Catholic Church refers to it as the saeculum obscurum, or dark century.)
lxVa TIL when researchers from Texas State Univ., who were studying the 17th century pirate Captain Morgan, ran out of funds while attempting to retrieve artifacts from his sunken ships off the coast of Panama, none-other than the Captain Morgan rum company granted them money to continue their work.
QR06 TIL George Ferris died from tuberculosis at age 37, just three years after he invented the Ferris Wheel. Since the Chicago World’s Fair staked a claim to most of the proceeds and economic recession crippled his business, the funeral home held onto his ashes because no one paid the balance due.
7rRjL TIL drivers in the UK who cause death while using their phones, speeding or are drunk face life in prison.
R7MGw TIL that "Forgotten Baby Syndrome," the tragic phenomenon behind infant hot car deaths, is caused by change in routine and can happen to anyone