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TIL By law, buildings in Washington, D.C cannot be taller than 130 feet. Lawmakers were worried that the Washington Monument wouldn’t be visible if skyscrapers were constructed.

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Me77W TIL in 2013 NATO helped to rescue 13 of Kosovo's 'restaurant bears', which now live in a specially made sanctuary
yQZgM TIL when John D. Rockefeller was once asked, "How much money is enough money?" He replied, "Just a little bit more."
KZRQ TIL of a Jehovah’s Witness who was temporarily incapacitated following a car accident. Her doctor transfused her with blood which saved her life, despite knowing she had signed a card requesting this not be done. Following her recovery she successfully sued the doctor for battery.
Z86DD TIL a physics paper published in 2015 had 5,154 authors, breaking the record for largest number of contributors to a single research article. Only the first nine pages of the paper describe research on the size of the Higgs boson, while the remaining 24 pages list the authors and their institutions.
wdxW TIL that in 192, the Roman emperor Commodus declared himself the new Romulus and “re-founded” Rome. He then renamed a bunch of things in his own honor, including the city itself and the names of the 12 months (which he changed to correspond with his 12 names)