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TIL the construction of the Cologne Cathedral in Germany was finished in 1880 after 632 years of work

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ADo8x TIL of the Giant Pyrosome; a “free-floating, colonial tunicate that is made of thousands of identical clones, together forming a hollow cylindrical structure that can be 60 feet (18 m) long and wide enough for a person to enter”
v1AZj TIL The ritual of releasing doves in the Olympics originated in 1896. The ritual was altered to be purely symbolic after the doves released in the 1988 Seoul Olympics landed on the Olympic Torch and were burnt alive when it was lit.
loa47 TIL that the U.S. only spends 12% of its total budget on military, despite commonly held notions that it spends upwards of 40 - 70%.
eV5n TIL that when Col. “Chappie” James was Vice Wing Commander under legendary ace Col. Robin Olds during the Vietnam War, they were known as “BlackMan & Robin.”
awKGL TIL Japan has an almost forgotten indigenous people, the Ainu and they were only legally recognised as an indigenous people of Japan in 2019.