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RWM8 TIL that the Taipei 101 skyscraper uses a 728 ton steel tuned mass damper (basically a giant pendulum) to counter motion of the building since it is so close to a fault line.
JL5v TIL PETA euthanize 86% of the animals that they rescue.
ADW9o TIL in the extinct Australian language Mbabaram, the word for dog is 'dog'. This is purely a coincidence and there is no relation between the words
wLek6 TIL Brigitte Höss, daughter of Rudolf Höss (Commandant of Auschwitz), was employed by a Jewish couple in Washington DC in the 70s. "They saw her as a person, in her own right, apart from her father".
QJpLa TIL American Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood depicts a Farmer and his Daughter, not a Farmer and his Wife