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TIL In Johannesburg, Ponte City a 54 story Apartheid era Luxury Apartment Complex fell to violent gangs and had a trash pile 14 stories tall. People used the 54 story balconies to commit suicide by jumping into the Courtyard

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YpWGP TIL President Jimmy Carter was in Mexico City on Valentines Day, 1979. At the opening ceremonies in Mexico City, Carter remarked that he could not "imagine a more appropriate day" for Mexico and the United States to meet "and to express the feelings that the people of my country have towards yours"
695K8 TIL The first spam email was sent in 1978 by Gary Thuerk, a marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corporation. He sent an unsolicited message to 400 recipients on ARPANET, the precursor of the internet, promoting a new computer system.
8O5a TIL that while making the film ‘Armageddon’, about oil drillers being trained as astronauts to save Earth, star Ben Affleck pointed out to director Michael Bay that it would be easier to train astronauts to become oil drillers. Bay told Affleck to “shut the &(* up”.
awKnL TIL George Michael, the writer and producer of the hit song Last Christmas, died on Christmas day in 2016
KYdMQ TIL the true story of Moby Dick. A whale sunk a crew’s main ship - leaving 3 sailboats. They’d live if they sailed to a nearby island. Out of fear from (false) stories of cannibalism, they tried going back to the mainland. In tragic irony, they got lost at sea and had to resort to cannibalism.