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x6baD TIL that the Earl of Elgin, from 1801 to 1812, removed about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon in Greece.
mxOKY TIL- There is a World Trade Center tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Designed by the same architect, used the same building materials, and built at the same time.
mxRxY TIL when the US was pressured by China not to sell F-20 fighters to Taiwan, the US allowed General Dynamics to work with Taiwan to jointly develop a comparable fighter, which was later named F-CK-1. (Yes, it's named after the Taiwanese president who initiated the project, but I'm sure r/theyknew!)
axA0 TIL That of the top 100 biggest economies in the world, 51 are corporations and 49 are countries.
WkmoY TIL the Federal Aviation Administration banned “advertising in outer space that is capable of being recognized by a human being on the surface of the Earth without the aid of a telescope or other technological device."