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TIL Eiffel Tower designer Gustave Eiffel included a ‘secret’ apartment for himself near the top!

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4bRN TIL the heat from the Vesuvius eruption was so intense, the skulls of those caught in it literally exploded by the pressure of vaporizing brain tissue and boiling blood.
M76dm TIL praying mantises can hear frequencies above the range of human hearing, and are the only animals with one ear.
e0arL TIL that Tic Tacs are allowed to be listed as "sugar free" by the FDA despite being approximately 90% sugar because each individual Tic Tac contains less than half a gram of sugar.
4Oa5 TIL there is a World Swastika Rehabilitation Day, where “the goal is to return the swastika’s true meaning of peace and harmony to this ancient symbol regretfully hijacked by the Nazis”
1aoe8 TIL a lifetime Cleveland Browns fan and season ticket holder requested in his obituary for "six Cleveland Browns pallbearers" at his funeral. His reasoning- So the Browns can let him down one last time.