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TIL nobody under the age of 32 has ever experienced a cooler-than-average month

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rZvy TIL The ThyssenKrupp Elevator company is building their own skyscraper just to be able to test new elevator designs
JYR6k TIL one of the selling points for introducing the guillotine during the French Revolution was equality - commoners could now enjoy the comparatively quick and painless death of decapitation just like the nobility, and would no longer have to endure brutal deaths such as those caused by hanging.
1a4JW TIL that WW1 was started in large part because of a novella written 6 years prior by the Russian writer, Leonid Andreyev. His short story inspired a group of Bosnian revolutionaries to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
NXZgE TIL It was found that men infected with toxoplasmosis found the smell of cat urine to be more pleasant than men who were not infected
xkvb TIL that Bill Gates has saved over five million lives by “bringing vaccines and improved healthcare to children internationally”.