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TIL the tallest building in South Dakota is an 11 story office building. CenturyLink Tower

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WkQXB TIL in 1906, the U.S. Supreme Court conducted its only criminal trial following the lynching of Ed Johnson, a black man whose habeus corpus petition was pending before the Supreme Court. The Sheriff holding Johnson was charged and convicted of contempt.
rRnk1 Today I learned that lizards eat their shed skin
rvpW TIL the word “quintessential” is actually Latin for ‘the fifth element"
5YjLk TIL that precious metals like gold can be artificially created in particle accelerators. Basically lighter atoms are bombarded with neutrons and electrons making them turn into heavier atoms which then decay into the desired metal. Unfortunately, the process is extremely expensive.
R7R0Q TIL: Astronaut John Young, was the first man to get yelled at for smuggling a sandwich into space