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TIL The Pentagon is the world's largest office building

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KKxE TIL Christopher Walken’s speaking style goes back to childhood, when he changed punctuation in his textbooks with a marker to be where he wanted the periods, commas, and exclamation points to be.
4kpjb Today I learned that 37 years ago this month, Geraldo Rivera blasted open “Al Capone’s Vaults” live on television and discovered… nothing.
1pWX TIL a “laughing heir” is distant relative who inherits a deceased person in the absence of any closer relatives. Being so distant from the deceased they don’t feel any anguish over their death, only joy at learning they will be receiving a surprise inheritance.
x6VP1 TIL An ad for Tango, a soft drink in the UK, which showed a topless orange man slapping people as a metaphor for tasting the drink, caused a craze where kids would slap each other and say "You've been Tango'd!" With one child suffering a perforated ear drum. The ad was withdrawn.
465R TIL that it’s easier to have an orgasm while wearing socks.