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TIL Paris, Texas has its’ own Eiffel Tower, which is wearing a red cowboy hat. It is a scale model, standing at 65 feet tall.

by whatilearned September 7, 2022, 11:42 pm

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TIL There are some hidden oil wells located around Los Angeles. They are disguised as plain buildings on the outside. One oil well is even named the “Tower of Hope” and is decorated with flowers.

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 2:58 am

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Was Perkin Warbeck Prince Richard (One of the Princes in the tower) also King Edward’s IV son who was supposedly murdered by King Richard III?

by HistoryBuff August 5, 2022, 10:18 pm

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TIL: At 555ft, the Washington Monument was the tallest building in the world for a few years until it was surpassed by the Eiffel Tower.

by whatilearned August 2, 2022, 5:53 pm

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TIL in 2005, Hunter S. Thompson’s funeral cost $3M and was paid for entirely by his good friend, Johnny Depp. During the funeral, Thompson’s ashes were shot out of a cannon sitting atop a 153ft tower.

by whatilearned August 2, 2022, 1:31 am

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TIL that in 1998 the World Trade Center was robbed by three criminals hired by the North Jersey Mafia. $1.6 million dollars were stolen from the 11th floor of the North Tower. This would be the last of a series of crimes committed at the WTC until 9/11.

by whatilearned July 21, 2022, 4:17 am

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TIL Stephen King releases his Dark Tower books through a small independent publisher from New England

by whatilearned July 7, 2022, 9:09 pm

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TIL that the last ever prisoners to be held inside the Tower Of London prison were the Kray Twins in 1952

by whatilearned June 9, 2022, 12:36 pm

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TIL Henry III received a polar bear as a gift from King Haakon of Norway in 1252. The bear lived at the Tower of London and was given a long leash so it could swim in the river Thames and catch fish.

by whatilearned June 3, 2022, 10:49 pm

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TIL Charles Whitman, the UT Tower shooter in 1966, had a glioblastoma brain tumor that could have (but not with certainty) explained his actions in murdering his wife and mom, and shooting/killing dozens of people at UT.

by whatilearned May 30, 2022, 3:38 am

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TIL one of the first casualties in the construction of the Hoover dam was John Tierney, who drowned on December 20, 1921. Then exactly 14 years later on December 20, 1935, the job site suffered its last fatality when a worker fell off an intake tower. That man was Patrick Tierney, John‘s only son.

by whatilearned May 27, 2022, 2:22 pm

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TIL about the Pirate Tower of Victoria Beach, a stone tower located near Laguna Beach CA. One of its owners, a retired sea captain used to dress up like a pirate and hold scavenger hunts for local children leading to legends that he had hidden his money somewhere in the tower.

by whatilearned May 16, 2022, 10:38 am

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