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TIL there is a mysterious windowless concrete skyscraper in New York that is designed to withstand atomic fallout for up to two weeks.

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neLDG TIL that in South Korea, in addition to the international age system, a traditional system known as "Korean age" is still widely used. In Korean age, people's age starts at 1 rather than 0 and gains one year at every New Year's Day.
015A Til the first item sold on Ebay was a broken laser pointer for 14.83, to someone who kept a broken laser pointer collection
6y4Q TIL when the words and the numbers on a check don’t match, the words prevail. This is because the Uniform Commercial Code dictates: “If an instrument contains contradictory terms, typewritten terms prevail over printed terms, handwritten terms prevail over both, and words prevail over numbers.”
6Egl7 TIL Pres. Teddy Roosevelt was given strong coffee and puffs of cigar as a child to 'help' with his asthma. As an adult his coffee drinking became legendary and he drank up to 40 cups/day. His son, Theodore Jr., remarked that his father's ideal coffee cup might be "more in the nature of a bathtub"
Vrx0 TIL that in 2014 not only did Lush Cosmetics sue Amazon UK successfully for selling knock-offs, they also trademarked the name of Amazon UK’s managing director and released a shower gel in his name with a tag of “Rich, thick, and full of it”