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TIL Tower of the Americas in Texas held the record as the US's tallest observation tower from 1968 until 1996 when it was surpassed by the Stratosphere Tower. When pouring concrete, the crew almost forgot to install a pipe insert so plumbing could reach the observation deck

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yVdJV TIL that Icelanders gather every fall to save baby puffins (pufflings) that have gotten lost and they do it by throwing them off a cliff.
MeJjK TIL in 1898 The Meister Print ( the Meister Footprint) was found it refers to two trilobites in slate that appeared to be crushed in a human shoe print in a 500million years old strata near Antelope springs,Utah. Was considered a evidence against evolution but was discarded by paleontologists.
jNDbX TIL there is only one mammal species that uses stridulation as a means of communication with other members of its group. The lowland streaked tenrec, native to Madagascar, uses its spines to create high-pitched sounds by rubbing them against each other just as crickets use their scrapers to chirp.
M70XB TIL the United Nations estimates that $1.7 Trillion is wagered globally in illegal sports betting markets each year
DmYg TIL Bill Nye and his neighbour, Arrested Development star Ed Begley Jr., are in an ongoing competition to see who can have the “lowest carbon footprint”