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Til Chinese pagodas were originated from India.
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TIL Of the pareto principle also known as the 80/20 rule. Which states that for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. ex. Microsoft has noted that by fixing the top 20% of the most-reported bugs, 80% of the related errors in a given system would be eliminated.
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TIL that the grocery store chain ALDI has a system with there carts, that they are locked to each other. The only way to unlock one, is to insert a quarter.
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TIL when Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders made their famous charge up San Juan Heights, they were entirely on foot. The only one riding anything was Roosevelt. They'd left the horses in Florida.
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TIL that, in 1955, someone dropped a 600+ year-old plaster statue of Buddha, only to discover after some of the plaster chipped off, that the statue was actually solid gold.
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TIL The real-life inspiration for "Pussy Galore," the leather-clad pilot in the James Bond Film "Goldfinger" was "Joe" Carstairs, an eccentric cross-dressing millionaire lesbian.