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TIL China is currently building a fully functional duplicate of Manhattan, with intentions of it becoming the “largest single financial center in the world”.

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RAka TIL during the first live iPhone presentation, Steve Jobs had to frequently switch phone to an identical one behind his desk because it would otherwise run out of RAM and crash
m1BM TIL A younger vision of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” will be presented in Geneva with the suggestion that it is the original version of what has been called the world’s most famous painting.
xO5B TIL bank robber Jesse James once gave a widow who housed him enough money to pay off her debt collector and then robbed the debt collector to give her back the money.
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