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TIL that in 1978, and architecture student discovered the Citigroup Center in NYC was susceptible to strong winds due to it being on stilts. Renovations to address the issue were done during a newspaper strike at night while employees were at home. This work was largely unkown unknown until 1995!

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05P1 TIL after Toonami was initially cancelled in 2008, there was a revival effort called Toonami Aftermath launched in 2010. The revival effort included a 24/7 stream, still running today, which airs old-school programs that have been broadcast on Toonami, Cartoon Network, Fox, and Kids WB.
PYGYV TIL During WW2 Ireland put up over eighty signs of the word Eire (Ireland in the Irish language) around its coast to warn bombers they were flying over a neutral country.
78V8M TIL Rembrandt's painting Bathsheba, an artwork famous for depicting a woman with breast cancer, was proven to not depict the disease after all, as scientists, after performing multiple simulations, concluded that the tone of blue the lesion has can only occur when the lesion is located at the skin.
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