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TIL there are tons of Arborglyphs (carvings on live trees) spread throughout the Western United States. They were made by Basque Sheepherders from the mid-1800's through the 1970's.

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wok0P TIL Shanghai's waterfront has 26 various buildings of different architectural styles including Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, Classicism and the Renaissance built under British control. Asia's leading cosmopolitan and thriving financial center, all tenants on the Bund were purged in 1949
OGye7 TIL that the Coleco Adam had several issues. The computer wouldn't boot if the printer wasn't connected, as it housed the power supply. The computer also emitted a electromagnetic pulse when it was turned on that would cause any storage devices that were near the computer to have their data erased.
0dQgy TIL: This first rejected demo for the Ghostbusters theme became the movie theme to Dragnet a few years later
Vy6B TIL that the ‘perfect body’ for men went from chubby, to skinny to muscular over the last 150 years.
VJMG TIL Stephen Fry was on a tour by the church of latter day saints when the tour guide said ‘in the afterlife all families will be reunited’. He replied 'And what happens if you’ve been good’. He was expelled from the tour.