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TIL that architect Antoni Gaudí wasn't able to finish the Sagrada Família because he died after being struck by a tram. He was left laying for hours and then only given rudimentary care because he was assumed to be a beggar due to his shabby clothes and lack of identity documents.

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R74DQ TIL - Sylvester Stallone almost died filming Rocky IV when he asked Dolph Lundgren to try and hit him for real. Dolph hit Sylvester so hard it bruised his heart, which swelled up and sent Stallone to the hospital for a week. He said it felt liked he'd been in a serious car crash.
6nKX TIL in a study of the 14 Accents of the British Isles, only 22% of people correctly identified the Cornwall Accent, compared to 95% Identification of the Scottish Highlands
wLRvW TIL that the lettering on soldiers’ graves at the American Cemetery in Normandy is highlighted with sand from the D-Day landing beaches.
n6or TIL high heels were originally worn by men as a signal of status. Women started wearing heels as a way of trying to appropriate masculine power. Being rational (practical footwear), everyone quit wearing heels altogether. It emerged again for women during mid 19th century from pornography.
OGAXR TIL about the Rat Park experiment, where rats in isolation preferred drug-laced water and often overdosed, but in a stimulating environment with other rats, they chose plain water over the drugs