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TIL Leonardo Da Vinci's mother died of malaria
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TIL Arizona and Hawaii don't observe daylight savings time.
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TIL King Tammany Day was once a hugely popular holiday in America, even celebrated by George Washington and the Continental Army at Valley Forge
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TIL on June 29, 1995, a department store in Seoul, Korea collapsed, killing 500 people. During construction, the owner insisted on adding an unauthorized 5th floor with a swimming pool. When his engineers protested, they were fired.
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TIL Pablo Escobar's Medellin drug cartel wrote off 10% of their money annually due to soilage because it would lie untouched for so long that rats would eat it or it would become water damaged.
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TIL Spike Lee negotiated with a Brazilian drug lord to allow him to film Michael Jackson's 96 music video 'They Don’t Care About Us' in a Rio de Janeiro slum. The drug kingpin replied “With Michael Jackson here, this will be the safest place in the world.”