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TIL Honolulu in Hawaii is ranked 4th among US cities for the most skyscrapers behind only to New York City, Chicago and Miami

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W7O6N TIL In 2023, Researchers re-analyzed lunar dust collected during the 1972 Apollo 17 mission and found evidence that the Moon formed about 40 million years earlier than previously thought. The proportion of lead isotopes indicated that the sample was at least 4.46 billion years old
7GrO TIL that in the 1950s a Texas white man went through extensive physical changes to become a black man and travel for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences, he was forced to move to Mexico for several years.
wLXv1 TIL that during the opening ceremony of Ottawa international Airport’s new terminal in 1959 a USAF F-104 Starfighter did a supersonic flypast. The resulting sonic boom shattered nearly all the glass in the airport and caused significant structural damage, delaying the opening for another year.
0wEN TIL that when John F. Kennedy asked Dutch foreign minister Joseph Luns what hobby he had, he replied “I fok horses”. The Dutch verb fokken meaning to breed.
167n7 TIL that the act of hiccuping may originate from an amphibious evolutionary ancestor that breathed underwater