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TIL the architectural design of Chicago is in part based off the beliefs of the religious visionary Emmanuel Swedenborg.

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k6gd TIL the creators of Nyan Cat and Keyboard cat have sued multiple companies for the use of their intellectual property
9jZX TIL of Francis P Hammerberg. During salvage efforts in Pearl Harbor, two Navy Divers became trapped when a piece of wreckage collapsed. By tunneling through 20’ of mud and steel he saved both men but became trapped himself in the wreckage. He died 18 hours later and was awarded the Medal of Honor.
bV84 TIL that in 1976 the mayor of Montreal declared before the Olympic games that “The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.” He was wrong. Mismanagement and gross cost overruns left the city with $1.5 billion of debt that wasn’t paid off until 2006.
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