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TIL: Creed from The Office was actually playing solitaire the entire time in the background.

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e0M8D TIL elevators in America (ADA compliant) they need to make an audible ding when going up. And double ding ding when going down. Many elevators also make a noise when at the ground floor. For many blind people this is a lifeline which enables them to use elevators.
VB798 TIL that Robert E Lee’s prewar family home, the Custis-Lee Mansion, was seized by Union forces during the Civil War and turned into Arlington National Cemetery. His family was not compensated until more than a decade after his death.
P0ve TIL in ‘79 a 14 year old created a “Kingdom” in his Milwaukee bedroom when his mother died. Today the nation Talossa claims national sovereignty, various lands, has a constitutional monarchy, its own language, and citizens on 6 continents.
eW06 TIL In the US, “Muslim women are at least as likely as Muslim men to hold a college or post-graduate degree, and Muslim women are more likely to work in a professional environment than women from most other U.S. religious groups.”
0wEXv TIL about Ron Galella - Dubbed The Godfather of US Paparazzi Culture by TIME - here’s a short article about him & his favorite (obsessed with) subject - Jackie Kennedy Onassis which also led to one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Images of All Time.