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TIL The tallest building in the world to have a woman as lead architect is in Chicago (Aqua Tower)

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6E45X TIL William "Wild Bill" Douglas, the longest-serving Supreme Court Justice, argued that the Vietnam War was illegal, that we should be able to sue on behalf of the environment, and that contraception bans violated our Right to Privacy. Later, the FBI planted marijuana on his property to entrap him.
wNLY TIL: The word “set” has 464 definitions… Making it the word with the most variety
d8Npd TIL On the magnitude scale, brightest objects have the smallest number and the faintest objects have the largest numbers. The full moon has a magnitude of - 12.6 while the brightness of the Sun is about -26.7
0wd51 TIL of Frantisek Zahradka. He was arrested in 1949 in Czechoslovakia when he was in high school for assisting people to cross the border. He spent two years in solitary, and 18 years was forced to mine uranium ore for the government.
0ok5 TIL: Standing at 7"6’, 15-year-old teen basketball giant Robert Bobroczky is already taller than any current NBA player.