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Post Score Posted TIL that when Gustave Eiffel built the Eiffel Tower in 1889, he reserved a small apartment for himself near the top. It had wallpaper, comfortable furniture, and even a piano. He turned down huge offers from Paris's elite to spend a night there, inviting only select guests such as Thomas Edison. 31010 6d ago TIL a finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into transferring $25 million to scammers after joining a video conference call where every single other participant—including the company's CFO and several of his recognized coworkers—was an AI-generated deepfake. 28031 8d ago TIL there have been several unauthorized Harry Potter books published in Chinese include Harry Potter and the Porcelain Doll, Harry Potter and the Golden Turtle, Harry Potter and the Crystal Vase and Harry Potter and the Big Funnel. 21391 6d ago TIL about a Japanese general who thought that his war crimes sentence was too light, so built his own prison in his garden 18497 3d ago TIL that the first television rerun was an episode of I Love Lucy in 1952; before that, TV episodes were aired just once, and never again. 17742 3d ago TIL that the actress Jodie Foster is fluent in French to the degree that she dubs herself in French-language versions of most of her English-language films. She attended the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, a French-language school. 17627 7d ago TIL that in 1872, two conmen planted $20,000 worth of gemstones in Wyoming and fooled wealthy investors into believing they’d discovered a massive diamond field. 16927 3d ago TIL a man was diagnosed with endocarditis and suffered heart damage, leading to a 7-hour open-heart surgery due to an infection caused after he unsuccessfully tried to remove a stuck piece of popcorn from his mouth with a pen lid, a toothpick, a piece of wire, and a metal nail. 16854 2d ago TIL Pope Francis declined his €30k/m salary 16315 7d ago TIL the fan who won Shakira's purple Lamborghini in a contest later revealed that the additional $90,000 he was given wasn't enough to afford and maintain the car long-term, adding that he didn't expect the car insurance to cost $2,000 a month, and that he had spent $70 twice in four days for gas. 15608 3d ago
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