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TIL that 740 Park in Manhattan is currently home to the highest concentration of billionaires in the country.

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eplog TIL that in 1940, after the German Luftwaffe bombed Buckingham Palace during the Blitz, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother refused to leave the King and evacuate to Canada with her children, saying - "I am almost glad we have been bombed. Now I feel I can look the East End in the face."
4XOLw TIL of "Hauntology" a philosophical concept explaining "contemporary culture's persistent recycling of retro aesthetics and incapacity to escape old social forms" as a "nostalgia for lost futures."
mxQby TIL When Frank Sinatra collapsed on stage in 1994, his fans in audience included doctors and a half dozen of them ran up on stage to assist Sinatra
woOEW TIL that the Academy of Persian Language and Literature has maintained that the endonym Farsi is to be avoided in foreign languages, and that Persian is the appropriate designation of the language. The word Persian has been used for centuries, and it carries historical and cultural meaning
4Gda TIL that Bees become docile with smoke because it masks their communicating pheromones, rendering them quite literally confused