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TIL giraffes and humans both have 7 neck vertebrae
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TIL in 1983 a man climbed the North Tower of the World Trade Center…to “call attention to the inability to rescue trapped occupants from the upper levels of skyscrapers.”
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TIL that bumper car smell is actually ozone that is produced by the electrical discharges.
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TIL the phrase “Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day; teach him how to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime,” did not come from an ancient Chinese proverb, the Torah, the Bible, or any other such place. It was coined by Anne Isabella Ritchie, the daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1885.
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TIL that there IS such a thing as transparent aluminum and it is a viable replacement for bulletproof glass.
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TIL that in 1992, Little Caesar's founder Mike Ilitch bought the Detroit Tigers baseball team from Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan.