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TIL There is a miniature replica of the Eiffel Tower in Greece

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dDpVQ TIL about the 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash where a single plane crash killed 16 Soviet admirals and another 12 highly-ranked military staff.
RBEa TIL When Paypal was started they gave $20 to everyone that made an account, and $20 for every person they referred. This cost them 60-70 million dollars but they had 100,000 costumers in the month PayPal went online
VxZ0 TIL an exotic dancer named Chesty Love claimed her breast augmentation surgury as a business expense since bigger breasts would lead to bigger tips. The IRS agreed and declared that her enlarged breasts were a stage prop essential to her act.
VZLp TIL in the USA there are more sex offenders who are registered at age 14 than at any other age.
Me0bm TIL that despite its modern association with vampires, one of the key principles of gothic architecture is to allow in as much natural light as possible