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TIL In 2019, the Wuhan Greenland Center under construction had its height scaled back from 636m to less than 500m

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mLyx TIL of a girl named Laura Buxton who released a balloon with her name on it that landed in the yard of another girl also named Laura Buxton. They also have the same color hair, are in the same grade, have black three-year-old female Labrador dogs and a rabbit and identical guinea pigs each.
E1mP TIL that zebra stripes are an evolutionary response to horseflies
o15E TIL, without permission, test pilot Tex Johnson did a barrel roll in a prototype 707 during a first look at a an air show with a lot of potential customers in attendance. When his boss called him into his office and said “What the hell were you doing?”, he replied “Selling Airplanes.”.
ep5rD TIL of Juice Jacking, where hackers use public USB charging station to compromise phones and smart devices. However, there are no credible reported cases outside of research efforts
OG5D4 TIL former Sheriff Lawrence Rainey attempted to sue Orion Pictures due to a perceived negative portrayal in the film "Mississippi Burning"; he dropped the lawsuit when Orion's legal team threatened to prove that the film was based on fact