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TIL Tajmahal was so bright even at midnight, INDIA covered it up with forest of twigs and leaves during 1971 INDO-PAK war, so that it can't be used as a reference point by PAK aircrafts.

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KYMwB TIL about "Fossa Carolina" a project funded by Charlemagne to try to connect the Rhine and the Danube. It is not confirmed if it was ever operational or not.
RO17 TIL Judge Alex Kozinski dismissed Mattel’s lawsuit over the song “Barbie Girl” with the line “The parties are advised to chill.”
pYPxN TIL about Hilbert's Grand Hotel paradox, a thought experiment which illustrates a counterintuitive property of infinite sets. It demonstrates that a fully occupied hotel with infinitely many rooms may still accommodate an infinite number of additional guests.
E1a8X TIL of flail chest, an injury in which broken ribs become detached from the rest of the chest wall and move opposite to the rest of the torso while breathing.
j6KZM Today I learned that most indoor swimming pools in the US in the first half of the 20th century required males to swim naked.