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TIL Celine Dion met her husband when she was 12 and he was… 38

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X0kkP TIL the original Ferris Wheel was designed and constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. as a landmark for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It was intended to rival the Eiffel Tower, which was the centerpiece of the 1889 Paris Exposition.
e0Or4 TIL the Delaware Aqueduct, which provides half of New York City's fresh water, has been leaking up to 35 million gallons of water per day since at least the 1990s.
5VAQR TIL that Ann Margret, the famous singer, dancer and actress from the 60s, was of Swedish descent and emigrated to the US in 1946 with the family not knowing a word of English.
PYGkV TIL Red squirrels make mushroom jerky, hanging fungi on tree branches to dry for winter storage
mxeao TIL about the Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße (AVUS) in Germany which opened in 1921 making it the oldest controlled-access highway in Europe, and until 1998 was also used as a racetrack!