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Til an Italian construction company (Pizzarotti) helped build America's own leaning tower of seaport

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QNnA6 TIL that it is illegal for certain Canadians and all Canadian companies to comply with US sanctions against Cuba
R5vg1 TIL Switzerland constitutionally banned all monasteries and the Jesuits until 1973
b6L84 TIL of Gondal, a world building project by Emily Bronte (writter of Wuthering Heights) with her sister Anne, mostly because they got sick of their older siblings, Branwell and Charlotte, kept dominating their previous world building game, the Glasstown Confederacy
e0Do4 TIL that immediately after Winston Churchill's 'We shall fight them on the beaches' speech during WWII, he told a colleague, "And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got!"
pYlJ8 TIL about the Copper Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls made of copper which is believed to be an inventory of gold and silver items buried.