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TIL Gandalf store his smoking pipe in his staff!
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TIL the 103rd floor of the Empire State Building was originally designed as a zepplin mooring station, complete with mooring mast, control tower room and passenger waiting room. Unforeseen currents caused by updraft from the building itself made it unusable, with only one zeppelin ever using it.
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TIL that as the earth warms, scientists fear that ancient viruses and bacteria will be released from the permafrost. Deadly infections from hundreds of years ago may reemerge, especially from old cemeteries where victims of these diseases were buried.
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TIL Ozzy Osbourne’s entire genome was once analyzed by scientists to determine how his body survived decades of drug abuse.
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TIL that two straight men got married to avoid paying higher taxes
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TIL about Canvey Wick, an old industrial waste zone that is the most biodiverse place in Britain. Its history as a dumping ground for sediment waste from industrial processes means that it has a wide variety of soil conditions, with the result that it has the equivalent biodiversity of a rainforest.