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TIL The Eiffel Tower was supposed to be scrapped after 20 years. It only survived because the military started using it as a radio tower, intercepting crucial military transmissions during World War I.

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RKw4 TIL that in 2012, researchers found that people who watch Fox News were less informed than people who didn’t watch news at all
8xEV TIL that in a 2004 study of basic science literacy, less than half of US adults knew that genes are located in cells.
6E4yl TIL that rolling stone gave Elton John's album 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' a scathing review, despite years later including it as #91 on their list of top 500 albums of all time
RxZ1 TIL Pimps wear lots of gold jewelry bought at pawn shops to “re-pawn” for bail money since cash is confiscated upon arrest but jewelry is not
MegyW TIL astronauts returning from space report higher concern with Universalism, Spirituality and references to "values orientated toward the collective good".