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TIL the Pentagon was built in less than a year and a half and was only supposed to be temporary

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BrJVx TIL of Jewel Shuping, a woman with normal eyesight, but who yearned to be blind. She eventually found a psychologist who was willing to help her in her quest. He dripped drain cleaner into her eyes, and 6 months later, she got her wish and completely lost her sight.
0draA TIL that the last television ever manufactured in the U.S. made its way off the assembly line in July 2005 at the former Magnavox production headquarters in Greeneville, Tennessee. The TV remains on public display in a history museum in the town.
gM7r4 TIL The "train joyrider" Darius McCollum has been permanently placed in a psych ward notorious for abuse and violence.
aojo TIL there is an island in the Pacific Ocean that uses huge, immovable stone discs as currency. When a purchase is made, instead of moving a stone disc, it is simply “publicly reassigned” to a new owner.
J1Yd4 TIL the slam dunk was banned in college basketball for about a decade, from 1967 to 1976, widely believed to lessen the impact of one player Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar).