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TIL the Royal Bank Plaza building in Toronto uses real gold to tint its windows, 25000 oz (or 70kg) of pure gold in total.

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6EEww TIL there is a 50 square mile "Zone of Death" in Yellowstone National Park that people can get away with murdering due to a legal loophole
8aob TIL that there are about 500 feral dogs in the Moscow Metro, and some of them have figured out how to commute through it.
oBB9Y TIL that in 2004 Kevin Spacey claimed he was mugged by "a kid" at 4:30 in the morning, then changed his story to police several hours later, claiming instead that he fell
MevmV Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR), the so-called "Korean artificial sun," fusion device has set a world record by maintaining plasma at over 100 million °C (180 million °F) for 20 seconds.
QN4Le TIL: The Graveyard of the Pacific is a place where 2,000 ships have wrecked and more than 700 lives have been lost. This is due to unpredictable weather conditions, including storms and fog, and dangerous coastal characteristics, including shifting sandbars, tidal rips, and rocky reefs.