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TIL Michael Thonet's S214 stool, designed in the 1850s, was the first stool to be produced industrially on a large scale for Europe's rapidly growing urban population in the 19th century.

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mx4vP TIL on January 22, 1943 in Spearfish, South Dakota, the temperature rose from -4 at 7:32 a.m. to 45 degrees–a rise of 49 degrees—in just two minutes. A couple of hours later, it plunged from 54 back to -4 degrees–a change of 58 degrees in 27 minutes
788NO TIL: In Valencia, Spain, after a devastating flood in 1957 the Turia river was diverted away from the city center and created a successful green space for all on the riverbed which was completed in 1969.
5RjB TIL that pilots and flight crews are federally classified by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as “radiation workers” and receive higher doses of radiation than all other US radiation-exposed workers.
WkdWN TIL Roughly 500 Million Tons of Sediment are Deposited in the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River Every Year
8nxZ TIL of the Grandpa Gang, a group of senior citizens who broke into a formerly impregnable bank vault in England and made off with over $20 million.