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TIL that anyone who removes Hawaiian rocks from the islands is said to be cursed. Every year people mail back thousands of pounds of rock, sand, and shells to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, many with reports of how their lives were ruined by the curse.

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AGwg TIL architects designed an ‘Earthscraper’ in response to a 10-story height limit on buildings in Mexico City. Reaching 1000 feet deep and shaped like a inverted pyramid, pedestrians walking over its transparent top ('base’) would be able to look down toward the bottom ('peak’) of the structure.
W75Z9 TIL that Lee Harvey Oswald and President Teddy Roosevelt were 3rd cousins, 1x removed. Roosevelt’s maternal grandmother Susannah and Oswald’s great-grandfather Thomas Hepworth Sr. were siblings.
nWe7P TIL in 1762, a Korean king confined his son ("Crown Prince Sado") in a rice chest in the heat of summer and starved him to death. It is said that the crown prince turned lunatic under his father's extremely high expectations, became bipolar, and sadistically murdered people
D1l6J TIL that in Moscow, packs of stray dogs will sometimes send out a smaller, cuter member to beg for food, apparently realising it will be more successful than its bigger, less attractive counterparts
5YJZQ TIL Soviet cosmonauts took a copy of Pink Floyd's live album "Delicate Sound Of Thunder" with them on their mission, making it the first rock album to be played in space. David Gilmour and Nick Mason also attended the mission's launch.