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TIL ceiling height affects creativity

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847P TIL the US Bank Tower, the tallest building west of the Mississippi, has installed a 70-story-high glass “Skyslide” that allows people to slide from the 70th floor to the 69th floor on the outside of the building, about 1,000 feet above ground.
DQ7rj TIL Nixon’s “ I am not a crook” speech happened at Disney World
b9KYQ TIL the German peasents war (1524-1525) was a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe. It failed because of intense opposition from the aristocracy, who slaughtered up to 100,000 of the 300,000 poorly armed peasants and farmers
QBwk TIL King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, the daughter of a cloth merchant. She became the Queen of Norway.
xV9Go TIL that in Kuwait in 1991, ten Iraqi soldiers surrendered to two American journalists that they came across. They were cold and underfed and had buried their guns. They wanted to be taken prisoner so they could get food and water. The journalists obliged and then took them to a Saudi army unit.