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TIL "Bird shit architecture" is a trend in urban planning that originated in the 1950's and persists to the present day. This type of architecture is designed to look good from a plane, but not practical for the actual residents of a city, like Brasilia

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NX0RN TIL of RAS syndrome (RAS stands for "Redundant Acronym Syndrome" Syndrome ), which is the redundant use of one or more of the words that make up an acronym (or other initialisms) in conjunction with the abbreviated form. (EX: PIN number, ATM machine, chai tea)
b6YVE TIL: Eumachia was a Roman business woman and priestess, being one of the few wealthy women of the time and funded many public buildings under the practice of euergetism, which is the practice in which high status/wealthy distribute their wealth to the community. Her statue is in the Naples Museum.
gMAy7 TIL that there is a fungal genus "Phallus" consisting entirely of penis-shaped mushrooms, commonly known as "stinkhorns."
oLY TIL that Walt Disney disliked the Goofy cartoons and only continued the series to make-work for his animators
PYwlO TIL about Xu Xiaodong, a Chinese MMA fighter who exposed multiple fraudulent martial arts "masters" by beating them in seconds. This angered Chinese authorities, who went on a campaign to break him, and he lost almost everything as a result.