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TIL skyscrapers in downtown Toronto are air conditioned via frigid water pumped from the bottom of Lake Ontario, reducing electricity costs by 75%

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epxa4 TIL that in the Commonwealth of Virginia the Dept of Professional and Occupational Regulation you can file a complaint against a professional wrestler, boxer, or martial artist, among other occupations.
M0y8 TIL former Telstra CEO Solomon Trujillo, of Hispanic descent, told the BBC that he found Australia to be racist, backward and like “stepping back in time”. The Prime Minister’s response was “adios”
MeoEW TIL that the “glove gun” that showed up in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds was a real weapon manufactured by the US military.
NlpQ TIL President James A. Garfield entertained friends by writing in Greek with one hand and Latin with the other at the same time.
gv4y TIL that the #1 high school in the US, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in which 2/3 of the student body is Asian but only via http://bit.ly/133mWgV