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TIL That beer was considered a soft drink in Russia until 2011

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XEywQ TIL the 42-story Cathedral of Learning on the University of Pittsburgh's campus is the tallest education building in the Western Hemisphere. It includes 31 "nationality rooms" that are designed to celebrate different cultures and nationalities.
GKx7 TIL that Quentin Tarantino got the inspiration to use manga comics to portray the gruesome violence in Kill Bill from Indian filmmaker Kamal haasan
1W8W TIL the “most succinct” world in any language is “mamihlapinatapai” and means the “unspoken and private moments shared in public where each party is fully aware of what the other is non-verbally expressing but is otherwise unwilling to vocally suggest or offer the thought.”
Opk1 TIL The piece that holds the rotor blades to the helicopter is known as the “Jesus nut”
6DOw TIL crevices and crevasses aren’t the same thing. A crevice forms in rock, but a crevasse forms in ice.