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TIL Towers in New York can fake and exaggerate how many floors they have, using tricks like different sets of elevators to hide the missing floors

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oB6lK TIL the year zero doesn't exist: the year AD 1 immediately follows the year 1 BC
rRv6W TIL in 1844, during a pleasure cruise on a US steamship, a ship's gun exploded, killing the US secretary of state, secretary of the Navy, and four other high-ranking federal officials. The disaster killed more top US government officials in a single day than any other tragedy in American history.
NE5J TIL Saddam Hussein bought 4000 PS2s in 2000 to build supercomputers.
60bJ TIL France is the only country with officially paid UFO investigators and it released its UFO files to the public through its website.
Z8PMR TIL The Pew Research Center estimates that since 1970, the share of the nation’s income earned by families in the middle class has fallen from almost two-thirds to around 40 percent.