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TIL IMAX projectionists have to wear protective body armor while handling or changing the projectors lamp

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6w4Z TIL in Australia there is a stinging plant so painful that can drive a man to suicide.
oBxRo TIL that 28 years ago a Floridian woman opened her door to a clown and was shot. In 2014, a hair was found in the evidence. After a DNA test, the clown was found in Tennessee running a restaurant with the wife's husband. Apparently having an affair months before the murder, they were now married.
QReX Today I learned that Zelda Fitzgerald (wife of F.Scott Fitzgerald) died in a more than horrific way, waiting for electroshock treatment in a sanatorium’s locked room when a kitchen fire in the building spread there and ended her life.
4DAX TIL Singapore is the only country in the history of the modern world to gain independence against its own will.
PYbBE TIL A three-sided skyscraper in the heart of Mexico City rises 246 metres, making it the tallest tower in the sprawling metropolis. It is organised into 14 four-storey clusters, conceived as "buildings within a building". Each cluster has its own interior garden