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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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R7Zkw TIL of the Republic XF-84H, the loudest aircraft ever built. Its engine was audible from 22 miles away, and Edwards Air Force Base was worried the noise would break windows in the control tower. The airplane was not popular at Edwards, and is rumored to have caused several miscarriages.
GyLN TIL The Museum of Endangered Sounds exists to allow streaming of once popular technological sounds. ie. the dial-up tone, ICQ chat tone, Windows 95 startup
o4go TIL in one Japanese Shingon Buddhist sect, the Tachikawa school, “the master drops the sacramental bodhicitta into the pupil’s mouth". Bodhicitta is the semen ejaculated during the master’s union with a female ritual partner.
RbWa TIL that someone build a working hydrolic computer to simulate an economic model, with water flow to represent money flow
8eROZ TIL that the civil rights act was not the first one in the U.S., but rather the second one, as the first was overturned by the supreme court in 1883.