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TIL that before the invention of the elevators, poorer tenants used to lived in higher floors equivalent to the penthouse of the modern day.

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nePPb TIL that the Titanic was a part of 3 large ships called Olympic Class by a company called White Star, looking forward to compete with what at the moment we’re the largest vessels in the world. 2 out of the 3 sunk in less than 1 year (with the Titanic as everyone knows, sinking in the first travel)
J1p5V TIL that the Yahgan people in South America are the world's southernmost human population. They were decimated by diseases introduced by Europeans and the last full-blooded Yahgan died in 2022 due to COVID-19. Today, the total population of the Yahgan is less than 1,600.
Edmx TIL bots are responsible for 90% of traffic to the US Ticketmaster website, and 60% of ticket sales on the most popular events
GWE7 TIL that in 1986, a woman who sought psychiatric help discovered memories of being in a satanic cult where she was forcibly raped, had to eat babies and as a consequence developed 120 different personalities to cope. The memories were later found to be false and the therapist was sued.
oRroY TIL a man named Juhayman al-Otaibi claimed to be the Mahdi (a messianic figure in Islamic eschatolog) and formed a cult following that besieged and took over al-Haram, the holiest Islamic site, in the city of Mecca for more than two weeks, and had left 255 pilgrims killed and hundreds injured