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TIL the Taj Mahal is slowly sinking due to the drying up of the Yamuna River and could collapse all together in the near future

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KOJVR TIL Lotus cars were initially sold as car kits which the buyer has to assemble themselves. This was done to sace up on purchase tax. It wasn't until late 1960's that they set up a factory and actually started manufacturing the whole car and selling them
9w4ZB TIL that Chia pets are so named because they are made with sprouted chia seeds
5Yp4r TIL about Katie Bouman, a computer scientist who at the age of 29 led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes known as Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors (CHIRP). In April 2019 the first ever image of a black hole was acquired.
9e6B TIL when Billie Holiday died, she had 70 cents in her bank account and $750 taped to her leg.
KOxW6 TIL: The "BookIt!" program still exists and - YES - you can still get free Pizza Hut pizza by reading books.