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TIL houses in Amsterdam have hooks built into the top front to help people move things in and out of upper story windows

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J1NLV TIL About Tolkien Peak, which is near Mount Gandalf, Mount Aragorn, and Mount Shadowfax, in British, Columbia, Canada. taken from fictional characters in his books, which were read while waiting out stormy weather during the 1972 first ascents.
8exbV TIL the Welsh celebrate Beaujolais Day, a toast to the first wine of the season made from the first harvest of grapes in the Beaujolais region of France.
d1VK TIL tasers shoot confetti with tiny serial numbers printed on it so that it can be linked to the person who fired it.
XEgok TIL: In 1986, the night before the Challenger shuttle exploded, Allan McDonald, the director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project for the engineering contractor Morton Thiokol, refused to sign the launch recommendation over safety concerns.
Ooe07 TIL in 1880 a guy built a 200ft 14 storey tower made out of concrete with no steel reinforcement. It’s still standing today, 140 years later, and is the tallest non-reinforced concrete structure in the world. It was designed as his mausoleum.