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TIL about hostile architecture, where public spaces are constructed or altered to discourage people from using them in a way not intended by the owner.

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ZpxMv TIL that Victor Hugo requested a very simple funeral with a pauper's casket. The government and Parisians made it a massive event. ~2 million people attended, brothels shut down, and a feminist journal complained that gymnasts and the department stores preceded the suffragists in the procession.
14LD TIL Finland is the world’s most stable society. It has the highest rate of literacy and the second-lowest level of corruption in the world.
a8dWN TIL that the largest urban area by population outside of Asia is São Paulo, Brazil
e0Ry4 TIL that Kid President has brittle bone disease and is a motivational speaker because he wants to make the world a better place before he dies at an early age
dWWZ TIL a 6 year old boy in UK sent a letter to the Railroad Museum asking for a job in the cutest way, they invited him over and named him “Director of Fun”