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TIL that in Hong Kong, architects often design buildings with holes in them to allow dragons to pass through unobstructed on their journey to the ocean.

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8a6Yb TIL: In 1944 Lex Luthor was the first character in a comic book (and one of the first in fiction) to use an atomic bomb. The United States Department of War asked this story line be delayed from publication, which it was until 1946, to protect the secrecy of the Manhattan Project.
9wNwX TIL that around 2020, anthropogenic mass (human-made material) was expected to exceed all living biomass on earth
Z69G TIL that Shel Silverstein, who many of us know for “Where the Sidewalk Ends”, wrote Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue”
kK0m TIL That when the mummy of Ramses II was sent to France in the mid-1970s, it was actually issued a legal Egyptian passport. Ramses’ occupation? “King (deceased).”
PY1Aw The National Toy Hall of Fame awarded “oldest toy” to the stick. Edward Bleiberg, a curator of Egyptian art at the Brooklyn Museum, says that Neolithic balls made from mud are probably out there, but in any case it would be difficult to determine if they were playthings.