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TIL that China’s Three Gorges Dam shifted the poles by 2 cm and also led to an increase of 0.06 microseconds in day’s duration only due to its huge production capacity

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Oovl4 TIL Steve-O Celebrated 10 Years of Sobriety by Participating in a Triathlon
16Q9V TIL that Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian engineer and economist who is considered one of the pioneers of game theory, experienced a notable personal setback when his wife left him for a servant, an event that reportedly had a significant impact on his life and work
9OGr TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous phrase “Where they burn books, they will also in the end burn people.”
PYKpZ TIL Iowa Man Tyler Heep won $1.00 from a scratch-off, drove to Lottery Headquarters, and demanded a gigantic novelty check. They wrote him out an oversized check and had him hold it up for a photo in a room set up with a camera and the Lottery logo. Heep used his winnings to buy 1/2 a gallon of gas.
7Nbb TIL in 1759 Arthur Guinness, founder of Guinness beer, leased an old unused brewery for £45 per year… for 9,000 YEARS.