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TIL Boston City Hall has been described as "one of the world's ugliest buildings".

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VBGxp TIL the movie 'Die Hard' was Alan Rickman's first role in a feature film. Rickman later revealed that he almost turned down the role because he did not think Die Hard was the kind of film he wanted to make
m0MR TIL the last British solider to be killed in WWI died an hour and a half before the end of the war, he had fought from the very beginning and died almost exactly where his first battle was four years earlier.
ao7o TIL that between 1996-2000, more than 250,000 indigenous women were coerced into sterilizations by the Peruvian government
Jgy1 TIL that 6 of the 10 windiest US cities are in Massachusetts. And Chicago isn’t even in the top 100.
mZvP TIL that organized “wife swapping” was started in the 1940s on U.S. Air Force bases by fighter pilots and their wives. Researchers found it was “a kind of tribal bonding ritual, with a tacit understanding that the two thirds of husbands who survived would look after the widows.”