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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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YA8G TIL Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, son of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
e06Rn TIL Dan White, killer of Harvey Milk and the mayor of San Francisco, was charged with Voluntary Manslaughter rather than murder. The Defense had argued that White's mental state was impaired by depression, as proven by him recently eating sugary foods. This became known as the "Twinkie Defense."
lGkr Today I learned Amazon remotely deleted copies of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, that were distributed through the Kindle store in 2009. This chilling example of potentially malicious behavior would have never been possible without DRM.
5YbAQ TIL that there is an Australian pine growing out of an old railroad bridge in the Florida Keys named Fred the Tree. Fred survives with salt spray, lots of sunshine, and no apparent soil. Fred even withstood Hurricane Irma!
vPmo7 TIL after Han official He Jin was assassinated by eunuchs, angry troops led by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu set the palace on fire, slaughtering any males without facial hair. It was so extreme that young men were forced to flash themselves to avoid being mistaken for eunuchs and killed.