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TIL that the design of the tallest residential building in the world, 432 Park Avenue in Manhattan, is inspired by a trash can.

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WkBp8 TIL between 2006 and 2010 the Motorola cellphone market share went down from 21.1% to 2.4%.
P1M8V TIL North Korea set up a large middle school in Pyongyang for ethnic Chinese students in 1955. When news of the Chinese Cultural Revolution reached students in 1966, they openly chanted Mao songs and teachings, Communist slogans, attacked the principal's office, resulting in closure of the school
aGno TIL that Quentin Tarantino wants to stop making films when he is around 60 years old (he is currently 52) because he doesn’t want to “fuck up his filmography with a bunch of old-man stuff.”
OBYL TIL that the highest and lowest rated movies that Nicolas Cage is in came out in the same exact year. Also, that he’s credited with being apart of 75 movies in only 31 years, just about 2.5 movies per year.
0vrN TIL, in China, before it there was a vaccine, smallpox scabs were ground up and blown up the noses of healthy people in order to immunize them.