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TIL that Hong Kong is home to more skyscrapers than New York, Chicago, and Mexico City COMBINED.

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KJ7Q TIL George Washington predicted a national/political climate eerily similar to what we are going through today resulting from the 2 party system.
nWmPd TIL the Choose Your Own Adventure books were invented by a single father and a lawyer named Edward Packard. He came up with the idea while telling bedtime stories to his kids
mxRdx TIL that a newly hatched Echidna is so tiny and underdeveloped that you can actually see the milk in its stomach because its skin is nearly transparent.
lY5A TIL In 1924, German shoemaker Adolf Dassler let his brother, Rudolf, join his sports shoemaking company. During WWII, they grew to hate each other and in 1948, Rudolf started his own company across town. Adolf, aka Adi, changed his company’s name to Adidas; Rudolf started Puma.
XEp8D TIL Every single German spy sent to Britain during WWII was either imprisoned or recruited as a double agent - fooling the entire German High Command and massively contributing to the victory.