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TIL there’s a bar in Ireland that was opened in 900AD

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v1YYj TIL the restrooms on the 103rd floor of the Willis (Sears) Tower, at 1,353 feet (412.4 m) high, are the highest in the Western Hemisphere, relative to street level
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