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TIL some skyscrapers have 150 ton swinging balls at the top for stability, equivalent to 30 elephants

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mxDKO TIL of the Metropolitan Sepulchre - A 19th century proposal to build a pyramid in London that would have covered 18 acres, had the capacity for 5 million bodies and at 94 stories and 1500 feet would have been taller than the Empire State Building!
p8PGO TIL The Portia Hypothesis is a scientific theory that claims that women with masculine sounding names, do better in male dominated fields such as law and engineering, than women with feminine names. It is named after a female Shakespeare character who dresses up as a male lawyer and wins a trial.
VKy4 TIL taking naps is a more effective and beneficial study method than cramming for tests.
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