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TIL North Koreans built Africa’s tallest statue in Senegal

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Lkebr TIL of the Wanggongchang explosion in 17th century China. It killed 20,000 people, released roughly the same amount of energy as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and contributed to the eventual fall of the Ming dynasty.
JjOQ TIL The night that Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech, Mos Def went to his house and told him he should leave America. He did.
M7kab TIL Michael Jordan has an HEIR App
mx5YR TIL Rosalind Franklin is the unsung hero of DNA research. Her X-ray Crystallography allowed her colleagues Watson and Crick to accurately characterize the double helix. Many believe she should’ve shared in their Nobel prize.
6kJX TIL that during the rebuild of the World Trade Centre, a 30-min lunch break actually ran much longer as workers had to wait for elevators to ferry them up and down. To accommodate these workers, Subway created a mobile restaurant that moved up the building as they finished each floor.