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TIL about the World's Littlest Skycraper, a building for which investors were given a blueprint measured in inches rather than feet. The promoter then ran off with the money after a building 12 times too small was constructed.

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a8O7o TIL that actor Matthew Modine (Full Metal Jacket, Stranger Things) turned down the lead role of Pete Mitchell in “Top Gun” (1986) as he grew up with siblings that served in the Vietnam war. Modine said: “There’s nothing sexy or romantic about war.” The role ultimately went to Tom Cruise.
aWMy TIL an app exists where you can call and wake up strangers.
eVE6 TIL there was a man named Joseph Bolitho Johns who escaped Australian prison so many times, they built a special cell just for him. He escaped that as well.
x6bJg TIL The space probe Juno was unable to make use of its Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument during its first otherwise successful close flyby of Jupiter due to it being offline awaiting a software update.