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TIL renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright's houses were famously leaky.

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9PaQ TIL the Ottoman Empire enslaved children, educated them and gave them the most important positions in the empire.
mxlmy TIL that in 1986, serial killer Wayne Nance broke into Doug and Kris Welles’s home. Despite being bound, stabbed in the chest, and then later shot, Doug managed to save his wife by shooting their attacker in one of the few known cases of a serial killer being killed by their intended victim.
LaYQ TIL that Jim Dale performed 300 voices for the Harry Potter Audiobooks and had to playback recordings of himself on set to remember each one, each time.
Y785P TIL that the iconic Y.M.C.A. dance originated from a misunderstanding. The Village People's original dance choreography had them holding their hands above their heads to clap. Audience members misinterpreted this as a Y and added the other letters on their own in an episode of American Bandstand.
PYE7O TIL: The New York Transit authority dumped over 2,500 subway cars into the Atlantic Ocean.