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TIL Lego didn't invent interlocking bricks, they just copied them from a toy that wasn't patented in Denmark

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6eMY TIL that in 1978, the engineer of Citicorp Center, one of the 10 tallest buildings in NYC, discovered a fatal flaw in the building’s structure. A massive, secretive plan, was set in motion to correct the flaw before the building toppled over and killed thousands.
6Pe8 TIL major cities like New York, Paris, and Toronto create and maintain fake building fronts in urban centres to conceal vent shafts and utilities. The ‘property’ in Brooklyn concealing a 19th century vent shaft is worth over 2 million!
QWGk TIL that in addition to 6 million Jews, about an equal number of Christians, Catholics and Homosexuals were killed in Nazi concentration camps.
7BbX TIL that some older PCs would play Für Elise through their motherboard speakers to indicate hardware failure. Other tunes occasionally heard included “It’s a Small, Small World” and “Eye of the Tiger.”
BEJb TIL Portugal decriminalized all drugs eleven years ago and the number of addicts has been halved since then.