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TIL “that there is a girls school built on the place where Taliban had their headquarters in Northwest Pakistan”

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AGwg TIL architects designed an ‘Earthscraper’ in response to a 10-story height limit on buildings in Mexico City. Reaching 1000 feet deep and shaped like a inverted pyramid, pedestrians walking over its transparent top ('base’) would be able to look down toward the bottom ('peak’) of the structure.
gMdjA TIL of Edmond Albius. As a 12 year old slave boy in 1841, he invented the technique for pollinating vanilla orchids profitably. Without this technique, it’s unlikely that vanilla would be nearly as well known as it is today.
0wwpA TIL of endowment effect, hypothesis that people overvalue things just because they own them
VBELp TIL that a mild fever can actually be helpful - it’s your body’s way of trying to kill the virus/bacteria that’s infecting you by heat
7r1lL TIL that Mary, Queen of Scots was 5' 11" (1.8m) tall in an age when 5' 4" (1.63m) was considered tall for a woman.