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TIL that Elogio del Horizonte, a concrete sculpture in Spain has been nicknamed "King Kong's toilet".

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Zp4Np TIL that Nicaraguan Sign Language is a sign language that deaf children in Nicaragua spontaneously developed in the 1980s. Linguists find it particularly interesting because it is believed to be an example of the birth of a new language, unrelated to any other.
D1JDj TIL why people don't scream and flail around when they close to drowning; their bodies do not have the air needed to perform actions such as waving around or screaming for help to seek attention, so the body attempts to prolong your survival in a few ways completely subconsciously.
JB7m TIL That Neil Degrasse Tyson won a gold medal in 1985 for Latin ballroom dancing.
PYaBe TIL Jame Watson (co-discoverer of DNA) decided to auction off his Nobel prize medal in view of his diminished income, for US$4.1 million. The medal was subsequently returned to Watson by the purchaser, Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov.
YJlx TIL that if NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea