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TIL that there have been four (4) different successive “Madison Square Garden” sports arenas in New York City, dating back to 1879; the current iteration of MSG (atop Penn Station) was built in 1968 and is several blocks away from Madison Square.

by whatilearned September 8, 2022, 8:41 am

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TIL about the Kress Drachenflieger, an experimental seaplane that was built in 1901 in Austria-Hungary, but never flew

by whatilearned September 8, 2022, 5:09 am

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TIL the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca was so terrifying to Rome that they would use the phrase “Hannibal is at the gates” whenever disaster struck. When the romans finally defeated Hannibal, they built statues of him in the streets of Rome to advertise their defeat of such a worthy adversary.

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 6:46 pm

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TIL that the city of Isfahan immediately surrendered to the turco-Mongol conqueror Timur and was treated with mercy. The city then killed Timur’s tax collector and his soldiers. He ordered the massacre of over 100,000 of the cities citizens and built dozens of piles out of their heads as revenge.

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 3:22 pm

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TIL The Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal was built to better connect Chicago to the Mississippi River, and was the world’s largest canal at the time. It provided engineers with the necessary experience to help construct the most pivotal infrastructure project in US history – the Panama Canal.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 9:35 pm

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TIL the earliest existing record of a telescope was a 1608 patent submitted to the government in the Netherlands by Middelburg spectacle maker Hans Lipperhey. The actual inventor is unknown but word of it spread through Europe. Galileo heard about it and, in 1609, built his own version.

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 3:05 am

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TIL that the oldest Norman castle in England pre-dates the Norman conquest by ~15 years. It was built by a Norman knight named Richard Scrob, granted lands near the Welsh border by Edward the Confessor, though only earthworks survive today

by whatilearned August 24, 2022, 1:26 am

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TIL Edmonton built an experimental suburban community with innovative street design in the 1980s over land that used to contain a garbage dump. It’s estimated about 85 per cent of the world’s cultures are represented there

by whatilearned August 23, 2022, 2:32 am

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TIL construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which was built with the help of pressurised caissons (a watertight retaining structure), resulted in numerous workers being either killed or permanently injured by decompression sickness or caisson disease named after this design.

by whatilearned August 20, 2022, 10:50 pm

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TIL in 2004 Volvo introduced a concept car that was built for women without a hood and dent-resistant bumpers

by whatilearned August 20, 2022, 7:34 am

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TIL Air Force Research Laboratory created a powerful supercomputer, nicknamed the “Condor Cluster,” by connecting together 1,760 Sony PS3s performing 500 trillion floating-point operations per second (500 TFLOPS). As built the Condor Cluster was the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world.

by whatilearned August 19, 2022, 10:09 pm

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TIL The Vuoristorata, a wooden rollercoaster at the Linnanmäki amusement park in Helsinki, Finland, is operated by a brakeperson standing at the rear of the train. Designed by Valdemar Lebech and built in 1950, it was the last rollercoaster in the world built using side friction technology.

by whatilearned August 18, 2022, 8:47 pm

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