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TIL 80% of Elevator “Close Door” buttons are non-functional

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R7KG6 TIL that after George Washington read the Declaration of Independence, the crowd was so moved that they toppled the statue of King George III, decapitated it, and then melted it to make bullets
areN TIL in 2007, a 75 year old woman smashed up a Comcast office with a hammer because she was fed up with their poor customer service.
VB6X0 TIL about St Catherine's Monastery at Mt Sinai in Egypt. Built (548 - 565AD) by order of Byzantine emperor Justinian I, to enclose the area of the Burning Bush seen by Moses. It is the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. Also contains the oldest continually operating library.
4kB96 TIL in the 1950s and 1960s trucks with fogging machines that sprayed DDT would be driven through American streets to kill mosquitoes and children would run behind the trucks to play in the thick fog that was created. In 1972, DDT was banned in the United States.
4kKKg TIL arsenic is used in chemotherapy to treat a type of cancer called promyelocytic leukaemia