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TIL: the 1973 Cheech & Chong song "Basketball Jones" features George Harrison & Carole King.

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PYbBE TIL A three-sided skyscraper in the heart of Mexico City rises 246 metres, making it the tallest tower in the sprawling metropolis. It is organised into 14 four-storey clusters, conceived as "buildings within a building". Each cluster has its own interior garden
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MBjm TIL: That in the Battle of Huertgen Forest, the forest was so dense and dark and hard to navigate that the German and Allied medics shared an aid station in the only building either could easily find.
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