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TIL The tallest building in the world (Burj Khalifa) was built without sewage, so all poop must be trucked out.

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DyDg TIL for 3 decades legendary female pro wrestler The Fabulous Moolah effectively controlled most of the female wrestling in the US, would allegedly sexually and financially exploit the women she managed, and sabotaged any female wrestler who could pose the threat of taking her place professionally.
X07Qj TIL Marc-Antoine Fardin published a paper in which he cited photographs of cats in jars, baskets and salad bowls and concluded that cats have the properties of both solid and liquid objects. For this work, Fardon was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017.
GKvg TIL that poisoned Halloween candy is mostly urban legend and there haven’t be any deaths as a result of stranger poisoning.
lera TIL Amelia Earhart wrote a prenup letter to her fiancée, George Putnam, stating she wanted an open marriage and “I shall not hold you to a medieval code of faithfulness to me, nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly”. Also “I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself”.
nm9W TIL the spikes at the end of a dinosaur’s tail is called the thagomizer, a term coined by Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side comic.