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TIL - The amount of water in Lake Superior can cover all of North and South America in 1 foot of water

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R50j7 TIL the Crest House, located at an elevation of 14,120 ft. (4,304 m.) near the summit of Mount Evans, CO, was the highest elevation business structure in the world. Finished in 1941, it was partially destroyed in a propane fire in 1979. Its ruins were later converted to an observation deck.
JdAB TIL in 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
Bgx9e TIL of the Hockey-Falco thesis which says the renaissance realist painters used devices made with mirrors and pinholes to project an image of the subject onto a canvas, the painter would then simply trace over the image to make the painting. It's also used to forge famous paintings.
4XogJ TIL that when somebody overestimates their knowledge and abilities in an area because they don't even know how little they know, it is called Dunning-Kruger effect
jNZ5v TIL Kobe Beef in the U.S. is basically a huge sham