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TIL The owner of a $169 Million condo in NYC in Billionaire's Row has never stepped foot in the building, considers it an investment. The super slim skyscrapers that make up Billionaire's Row sit empty most of the time as many of the owners of the units have 7 or 8 other houses they rotate living in

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nWvE7 TIL: There is a strong connection between physical exercise and mental health
9Y4Q7 TIL about the ghost village Epecuén (Argentina) and it's sole inhabitant, Pablo Novak. The once touristic town became uninhabitable after a flood slowly consumed it in 1985. The waters began to recede in 2009 and Novak (now 90 years old) returned to the home of his youth to live alone with his dogs.
VMQvp TIL At the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott performed a live demonstration where he held out a hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time. Because they were essentially in a vacuum, there was no air resistance and the feather fell at the same rate as the hammer, as Galileo had concluded
D16ZP TIL that John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is tall – 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m), compared to the actors playing hobbits at around 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) so the filming was much easier because he had a perfect proportion to the hobbit actors
ADkQo TIL in the 1920s, a man falsely claiming to be a doctor implanted goat testicles into people across the US as a cure for all diseases. He was condemned by the AMA and media, but ran for governor of Kansas in 1930, narrowly losing after thousands of votes for him were questionably disqualified.