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TIL The Vessel in Hudson Yards Manhattan has been temporarily closed due to the large numbers of suicides at the top.

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0wZaR TIL in 1977, a woman in New Mexico saw a burn mark in her tortilla that looked like the face of Jesus. She then built and ran the "Shrine of the Miracle Tortilla" until 2006 when the tortilla was dropped and broken during show-and-tell at a local elementary school.
rMM4 TIL that the original creator of the Barbie doll had previously designed military-grade missiles
YpoPd TIL of Tab soda, Coca-Cola’s first brand of diet soda launched in 1963, was only just discontinued in 2020
XEXKj TIL many puzzle manufacturers reuse the dies which cut their puzzles into pieces, so pieces from one can fit into another. And one man has turned this into an art.
lwvK TIL that thanks to its 30’ deep foundation, the center of gravity of the 605’ tall Space Needle is just five feet off the ground.