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TIL the Eiffel Tower was repainted for the Paris Olympics. It cost an estimated $60 million dollars. 25 painters a day for 18 months straight. It’s the 20th time it’s been repainted.

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9g5B TIL the shortest man and the longest penis in the world are only 2 inch apart
l78B5 TIL that Nat Fein wasn’t supposed to work the day he took the first sports photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize
D1Oer TIL about the Bay of Jars. A collection of ancient Roman ceramic jars found in the waters outside Rio de Janeiro suggesting that the ancient Romans visited Brazil centuries before the Portuguese.
wLbQY TIL that there's a company in the UK that takes wet coffee waste and turns it into things like coffee flavouring, and bio-fuel logs and pellets
mZgv TIL In 1814 (during the war of 1812) the White House was set ablaze by the British army, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. The house was declared to be in imminent danger of collapse