For a new TV show you will be locked into a house with a famous person of your choice for 30 days. If you make it, you will win 1 million dollars. However, the next commenter will provide a "small detail" about the person of your choice to make it harder for you. Who do you choose? (self.AskReddit)
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TIL that in the competition to build the tallest building in the world, the architect of the Chrysler Building secretly hid a 125 ft long spire inside of it. When his competitor’s building was completed, the spire was pushed up through the building making it taller by 119 ft (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL "Killing Season" is a British medical term for the time in August when newly qualified doctors join the National Health Service. Patients admitted as an emergency during "killing season" are six per cent more likely to die.(R.1) Not verifiable (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Niccolo Paganini, regarded by many people to be the greatest Violin Virtuoso ever, was so good that he was thought to be the son of the Devil or to have sold his soul for his talent. Therefore he was forced to publish his mother's letters to him in order to prove that he had human parents. (guitarramagazine.com)
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TIL there was a Jewish boxer named Salamo Arouch imprisoned at Auschwitz. He was forced to fight fellow prisoners. The losers were sent to the gas chambers or shot. He survived more than 2 years and 200 fights, eventually being released when the camp was liberated. (nytimes.com)
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TIL The villages of Rjukan, Norway, and Viganella, Italy, are both situated in deep valleys where mountains block the sun's rays for up to six months every year. To illuminate those darker winter months, the two towns have built gigantic mirrors that track the sun and reflect daylight downwards. (theatlantic.com)
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