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TIL the city of Chicago has approved a project to contruct what would be the tallest building in the USA

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OGPEe TIL in the Battle of the Big Hole, Montana in 1877, Nez Perce Indians captured a howitzer from the United States Army, but dismantled it
N75Zb TIL turning down the radio in your car to concentrate more may actually increase visual acuity, it's your brains way of prioritizing tasks.
VK7G TIL: No human has won a tournament standard chess game against a high spec computer since 2005.
v6P4 TIL That when Wonder Woman first appeared as a member of The Justice Society in 1941, the group made her their secretary.
oRmkA TIL that the New Caledonia pine (Araucaria columnaris) leans towards the equator wherever it is on Earth, except in New Caledonia, the region where it is endemic : the farther it is from the equator, the more it tilts.