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TIL about the Leaning Tower of Niles, a half-scale replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, located in Niles, IL and completed in 1934.

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9YNkG TIL Tom Hanks agreed to play Mario in the the ‘now infamous’ live action movie “Super Mario Bros”. However, studio executives turned him down because they were worried he couldn’t handle the film’s more dramatic elements. (Clip starts at 4:26)
E9kW TIL After sleeping with 20,000 women during his carer Wilt Chamberlain said before his death “all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I’ve found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying.”
KxYw TIL When asked why nerve gas was not used in Normandy, Hermann Göring said the Nazis were dependent upon horse-drawn transport to move supplies to their combat units, and had never been able to devise a gas mask that horses could tolerate
kxDe TIL that in 2013 a UK company perfected the “tomtato” - a plant that grows potatoes under the soil and tomatoes above.
W7aM8 TIL about Jim Roper, winner of the 1st NASCAR race in Charlotte in June of '49. He drove a borrowed Lincoln from Kansas, raced and won the stock car, then drove it home. It would become his only win.