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TIL the practice of “topping out”, a ceremony symbolizing the completion of a building or its skeleton, dates back over a thousand years and is celebrated worldwide.

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d8Ny7 TIL That the Pacific island nation of Kiribati is expected to be submerged within the next generation
8amrb TIL a male baboon in Australia being transported from a research facility to get a vasectomy escaped with 2 female baboons when their cage broke. The trio was captured after 2 hrs of freedom & the vasectomy was postponed. The females reportedly had been brought along to reduce the male's stress.
oLvA TIL Tupac Shakur auditioned for the role of Bubba in Forrest Gump.
GYjKJ TIL the Garfield plush dolls with suction cup feet were so popular in the 1980's that Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, became worried about overexposure. He paused the sell of them for 5 years.
GYYBE Blame the skirts.