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TIL the world’s tallest skyscraper designed by a woman is The St. Regis, Chicago. Standing at 1,198 ft tall, the 101-story tower was created by architect Jeanne Gang in 2020. The tower consists of three interconnected towers of different heights but all possess the same unique curvilinear design.

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e00m5 TIL that the world's most venomous creature, the Box Jellyfish, actively hunts prey, grow up to 10 feet in length, swim at 5 mph and will kill a grown man in less than 5 minutes.
JBKV TIL: An artist attempted to hitchhike from Milan to the Middle East in a wedding dress to promote world peace. She was gang raped and murdered in Turkey. A Turkish newspaper said “Let’s face it, if Pippa were a Turk, some people would feel freer to say that a hitchhiking woman deserves to be raped.”
b959p TIL after Salvador Dalí and Harpo Marx met and expressed mutual admiration, Dalí sent Harpo a Christmas present: a harp with barbed wire for strings and spoons for tuning knobs, wrapped in cellophane. Harpo was delighted and sent Dalí a photo of himself sitting at the harp with bandaged fingers.
4Xn1X TIL in 1981 the landlord visited the warehouse of Nintendo of America to collect overdue rent and berated the president, Minoru Arakawa, in front of employees. The new game, Donkey Kong, was about to be released and they changed the character's name to their landlord's name: Mario.
GY6J7 TIL while Henry David Thoreau is quoted as a major influence by supporters of nonviolent resistance and anarcho-pacifism, he actually did approve of violent behavior by such groups as abolitionists.