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TIL underwater construction can be achieved by creating dry work areas underwater inside of an enclosed space called a cofferdam

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p8jnQ TIL Peruvian chicken (Pollo a la Brasa) was created by a pair of Swiss men living in Peru in the 1950s
leE1 TIL Natural redheads have a higher pain tolerance than those with other hair colors. They are also harder to kill via lethal injection.
68JQ TIL two men were brought up on federal hacking charges when they exploited a bug in video poker machines and won half a million dollars. His lawyer argued, “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” The case was dismissed.
neboP TIL: In the mid 1800s downtown Chicago was lifted to deal with problems with mud and to make room for sewers. During this process, entire buildings and eventually entire blocks were slowly lifted with hydraulic jacks until the whole downtown area was raised up to 14 feet.
AD014 TIL that the 1st title of “Where the Wild Things Are” was “Where the Wild Horses Are” - until Sendak realized he could not draw a horse. So he drew the Wild Things, modeled after his relatives.