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TIL that the Metropol Parasol in Seville, Spain, is the largest wooden structure in the world

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LW70 TIL There is a Brazilian proverb that says “our country grows at night when the politicians are asleep.”
04x5 TIL Casey Kasem quit the Transformers cartoon because they named a fictional arab city “Carbombya”
JEkj TIL in the days after the 9/11 attacks the German warship Lutjens(D185) passed by the US destroyer Winston S. Churchill with the US flag flying at half-mast and the sailors Manning-the-Rails, an honor typically reserved for heads of state.
p8VO4 TIL In 1612 at the funeral of Henry Fredrick, Prince of Wales a naked man ran through the crowd of mourners claiming he was the ghost of the recently deceased Prince.
wLYj8 TIL in March 2011, Korea’s anti-trust regulator went to a Samsung facility in Suwon to raid the building, looking for evidence of possible collusion between the company and wireless operators to fix the prices of mobile phones. Before investigators could get inside employees began eating documents.