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TIL the CN Tower in Toronto gets hit by lightning strikes at least 75 times a year

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O06X TIL that if the Native Americans really did sell Manhattan to the European for $16 in the 1600s and had invested that $16 at annual interest rates of 8%, today that $16 would be worth enough for them to buy back all of Manhattan and still have $222 Trillion dollars left over.
7W5P TIL there is a house in Warsaw that is 152 centimeters (60 in.) wide, placed in the exact space between two buildings.
wLYkW TIL that Edward James Jim Corbett tracked and killed 33 well-documented man-eaters, 19 tigers and 14 leopards, that combined to kill over 1,200 people. Despite the dangerous nature of the beasts he was hunting, Corbett traveled alone and by foot while hunting the cats.
xBW7 TIL in 1897, there were plans to build a bicycle “superhighway” that would have run between Pasadena and Los Angeles.
x6v00 TIL the only living queen grandmother in the world is in Bhutan