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

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wLD5M TIL about Sidney Franklin, a gay Jewish man from Brooklyn who became the first American matador in Spain, befriended and was admired by Hemingway, and was known publicly as “El Yanki” or “El Torero de la Torá”
8e684 TIL while exact numbers are not known, estimates indicate that nearly half of the remains of the dead in the US Civil War were never identified. This resulted from burials along marching routes or battlefields, and a lack of personal identification for soldiers
b6mZa TIL In the biblical story of Peter, Jesus did not rename the man called Simon/Simeon with the name Peter. He called him "rock". Petra is just the Latin/Greek version of the word "rock". It was later anglicized to "Peter"
ANQmg TIL the singer building in Manhattan, which was one of the most recognized buildings in new York city, and used to be the world's tallest, was demolished in the '60s. at the time the tallest building to be purposely demolished until 2019
W7GvB TIL radiosondes are launched by balloon twice each day around the world, at the exact same time, to track the jet stream. When they come down, if you find one, you can keep it.