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TIL Over 65,000 properties in Baltimore are designated as historic buildings and listed in the NRHP, more than any other U.S. city. "We haven't nominated the entire city yet, but we're pretty close," said the Maryland Historical Trust

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9w6Z6 TIL During the first dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, one of the outer window panes on the bathysphere cracked. They opted to continue, and successfully reached the bottom.
4P6N TIL that more people were killed while producing the V-2 rocket than were killed in its use (12,000 vs. 9000). In addition Germany spent 50% more money on the V-1 and V-2 than the U.S. spent on the atomic bomb
6KQ8 TIL On August 1st each year the people of Warsaw, Poland stop everything to pay homage to the Warsaw Uprising the largest rebellion of WWII. Which cost cost over 200,000 lives and destruction of the capital.
yBxp TIL entire 50-year operating budget of NASA from 1958-2008 was approximately 1/5th the cost of the 2008 Bank Bailout
loRA5 TIL Disneyland is in Orange County California, and Disneyworld is in Orange County Florida