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TIL that the engineers of the Brooklyn Bridge, expecting to be supplied with sub-par materials, overbuilt the bridge to the point where even when supplied with inferior cabling the bridge remained stronger than it needed to be by a factor of five.

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E14jx TIL of Judy Melinek, a medical examiner who identified hundreds of bodies from the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, many of which were merely scraps of flesh or pieces of limb. She was called in mid-August 2002 because they had found a foot bone on top of another skyscraper 1/5 mile away.
epP5k TIL about the Returning soldier effect: a phenomenon which suggests that more boys are born during and immediately after wars.
VBVkm TIL The Statue of Liberty was Originally Designed as an Egyptian Woman
1DlW TIL VLC’s icon is a traffic cone because the students who created the media player kept a collection of traffic cones.
E1XPV Today I learned of a ww2 navy officer who escaped a POW camp in full uniform by pretending to be a Bulgarian officer named I Bugaroff