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TIL that Jerry Springer was once mayor of Cincinnati, OH.

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Z80nR TIL: The central spire on the Notre Dame was built almost 600 years later in the 19th century amid a broad restoration effort, partly buoyed by the success of Victor Hugo's novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" in 1831.
Mebaa TIL of cherubism, a genetic disease that causes large cysts to form inside face bones, making the bones sponge-like and disfigured.
aLX9 TIL there’s a probe orbiting Venus with a secondary mission: to find life on Earth. From Venus’s point of view, Earth is practically a pixel, which is exactly what exoplanets across the galaxy look like from Earth.
enDL TIL a Boeing 707 took off from Paris, got lost near the Northpole, had its wing tip blown off by a Soviet fighter jet, landed on a frozen lake afterwards and almost everyone survived.
J1QXl TIL that there has been a sharp increase in nursing homes in Thailand for elderly dementia patients from Europe, as the costs are significantly cheaper compared to care back in the West, while also allowing for significantly lower carer:patient ratios and individualized care.