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TIL that There Is a Secret Apartment at the Top of the Eiffel Tower

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YWQW TIL that Tycho Brahe, a Danish astronomer, refused to leave the dinner table to pee during a banquet, as this was considered impolite. This caused him to rupture his bladder and die as a result.
b9eGj TIL that a group of bears is called a "sleuth of bears". Also: a sounder of boars, clowder of cats, mob of cattle, coalition of cheetahs, bask of crocodiles, pod of dolphins, bed of eels, cast of falcons, business of flies, band of gorillas, boil of hawks, kindle of kittens, barrel of monkeys
wLErY TIL Interstate 19 is the only major interstate in the U.S. to use kilometers instead of miles for distance. It connects Tucson, Arizona, US to Nogales, Sonora, MEX
VMWyp TIL it costs more than one cent to physically create one cent.
oBbbL TIL James Murray Spangler (1848–1915), a salesman and janitor, invented the first commercially successful portable electric vacuum cleaner that revolutionized household carpet cleaning. His device was the first to use both a cloth filter bag and cleaning attachments. His invention was patented 1908.