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TIL that 27 of the 30 oldest buildings in existence are in Europe.

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X0JZk TIL: That during the early part of the Bosnian War, the bobsleigh and luge track used for the 1984 Olympics was transformed into a field artillery position for Bosnian Serb guerillas, the men's alpine skiing venue was a Bosnian Serb military installation and the Zetra Ice Hall was reduced to rubble.
Gnm1 TIL that John Adams, founding father of the U.S., called his wife “Miss Adorable” and demanded a million kisses in one of the first letters he ever wrote her.
Bedx TIL Legoland donated $10,000 to Youth for Human Rights International, a Scientology group, thinking it was a human rights charity.
5YZlr TIL An anthropologist created the language "Beama" for the film Alpha, about a young man separated from his tribe who befriends a wolf 20,000 years ago. She explored the research on phonetic sounds of protolanguages to determine how Beama should sound, and the director preferred more melodic-sounds
GYWG5 TIL that Mark Zuckerberg bought 700 acres of beachfront land in Hawaii. He built a wall around the property and then tried to force hundreds of Native Hawaiians to forfeit their gathering rights to the land by suing them