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TIL the Empire State Building used to have an entire floor dedicated to napping.

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9wDe7 Til the Warsaw Radio Mast was the world's tallest structure at 646.30 m (2,120 ft) from 1974 until its collapse on 8 August 1991. It was build to broadcast Communist propaganda around the world, including to the remotest areas such as Antarctica.
W7Rv4 TIL NYC didn't use trash bins until they recently introduced them to combat notorious rat infestation and rancid smells
N7oYJ TIL that Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine. He opposed executions and when he was unable to have them abolished, he suggested "decapitation by means of a simple mechanism." as the most humane method. When the device was finally invented, it was given his name.
l7RNK TIL a band released blank album cover captioned “We had an album cover we wanted to use, but after getting dropped by our label we can no longer afford to use it. So instead you can stare at this blank square.”
D5GY TIL A man claimed to have travelled to an alternate dimension where The Beatles never broke up and brought back a mix tape of songs that nobody had ever heard before