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TIL billionaires in London are building “Iceberg Mansions” where most of the home is below ground.

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699Nw TIL that when deaf people experience stroke-related brain damage, they often lose the ability to sign in remarkably similar ways to the different forms of linguistic aphasia (difficulty speaking, forming words, sentences being nonsensical)
kJp6E TIL that in the 19th century, there was a common prejuidice towards the german immigrant population that they were eating dogs. That is how, when the frankfurter sausage was introduced, there were rumors circulating that there was dog meat in it, so it earned the nickname "Hot dog".
9wQnB TIL in just one year, (FY 2022 - Oct. 2021 through Sept. 2022) CBP seized enough fentanyl to kill everyone in the USA, 10 times over.
Rbdj TIL lobsters are “biologically immortal”
a87y0 TIL that the Hope Diamond, was mailed to the Smithsonian in a $2.33 envelope, in normal first class US Mail without delivery confirmation.