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TIL The ThyssenKrupp Elevator company is building their own skyscraper just to be able to test new elevator designs

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kOdKg TIL When inflight smoking was being initially banned there was an exemption for pilots out of safety concerns of them going through nicotine withdrawl
woexY TIL Scientists genetically modified goats to spin spider silk from their udders. US Professor Randy Lewis transplanted a gene into the goats from a spider that allows the goats to produce milk containing an extra protein. This is then extracted from the goat milk and spun into spider silk thread.
AD9r7 TIL of the European custom of "telling the bees," wherein bees would be told of marriages, funerals, and other important events in their keepers' lives.
EZrW TIL there is a theory of evolution that suggests that mushrooms played an important role in separating the Homo Erectus from the less evolved ape. The Stoned Ape Theory
wLnp1 TIL in 1714, a Norwegian captain and an English captain had a 14-hour long ship fight. Afterwards, both ships were badly damaged and the Norwegian captain was running out of ammo. He sent an envoy to the English ship, asking if he could borrow some of their ammo. They said no.