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TIL Shanghai's waterfront has 26 various buildings of different architectural styles including Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, Classicism and the Renaissance built under British control. Asia's leading cosmopolitan and thriving financial center, all tenants on the Bund were purged in 1949

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pV5e TIL that if a billiard ball and the earth were the same size, earth would be smoother than the ball
v8A4 TIL in 1968, two boys playing in a deserted and rat-infested tenement found the body of a 31yo drug addict, surrounded by religious pamphlets and empty beer bottles. Not until 19 months later was the body identified as that of child actor Bobby Driscoll, Academy Award winner and voice of Peter Pan
kJ8r4 TIL Venmurasu is the world's longest novel, spanning 26,000 pages. An Indian writer completed it in just six years. It is a modern retelling of the Indian classical epic Mahabharata, with some minor details expanded into standalone stories the length of a typical novel.
lob1a TIL Harrison Ford got his ear pierced at the popular preteen store, Claire’s Accessories. After the piercing he signed a notepad to the woman who pierced his ear: "To Tavora. You made a hole in me. Harrison Ford."
pYPmG TIL: That American Jim Thorpe was stripped of two gold medals following the 1912 Olympics because it was discovered that he had previously played semi-professional baseball, violating the amateur rules at the time. The IOC returned replica medals to his children in 1983; 30 years after his death.