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TIL the official city bird of Redondo Beach, California is the Goodyear Blimp.

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4EGg TIL AT&T has a center in San Francisco (dubbed “Room 641A”) whose sole purpose is to monitor domestic and global internet traffic. There are potentially ten to twenty of these across the country.
k784 TIL that roughly 1% of the German population is genetically immune to the HIV virus
P1jNg TIL The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of large, man-eating lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, responsible for the deaths of many construction workers in 1898. The lions' skins were used as floor rugs for 25 years, before being sold to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
OopDY TIL 8% of modern Spanish words are Arabic in origin, entering Spanish usage during Muslim rule in the southern Iberian peninsula in 711-1492 AD. These loan words often begin with with "a-" or "al" (e.g., almuerzo, aceite, arroz, azul) because these sounds mark a definitive noun in Arabic.
d8x0K TIL - In Germany there exists the only tree in the world with its own mailing address. The "matchmaking" tree receives about 1,000 letters per year from singles looking for love. Anyone can take letters from the tree and respond. It is estimated the tree is responsible for over 100 marriages.