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TIL that NYC architects once made a proposal for an upside down skyscraper, which would hang upside down suspended by air cables that would be attached to an asteroid.

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JAak TIL: The driest place on Earth gets 4 inches of rain every 1000 years.
e0dGn TIL Czech hospital kept brain-dead mother 18 weeks on life support and prepeare her to gave a successful birth. It's one of the longest time ever
4XJk5 TIL about a type of tinnitus called pulsatile tinnitus, which is where you can hear a pulsing (like your heartbeat) in one or both of your ears. This is typically caused by muscle movements near the ear or blood flow problems in the face or neck.
yVe4J TIL Japan has a 'wind phone'. An unconnected phone booth where grieving relatives go to 'talk' to their lost loved ones. Opened after the 2011 Fukushima earthquake/tsunami, it has seen over 30,000 visitors.
xVBD5 TIL thousands of sheep died in Dugway in 1968 due to a chemical weapons test