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

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W0N8 TIL that People were confused how a Chinese couple managed to run a busy restaurant 21 hours a day without getting tired. Locals named it “robot couple restaurant”. Turns out the restaurant is run by two couples … both the men and women are identical twins.
gM9LL TIL "Mayhem" is felony -- defined as disabling or disfiguring someone, and in 1936 an American heiress was charged with mayhem for ordering doctors to sterilize her 20-year-old daughter as punishment for promiscuity and to steal her inheritance.
wk9o TIL Jon Stewart proposed to his wife through a personalized crossword puzzle created with the help of the crossword editor at The New York Times.
epKED TIL that the condor cluster is a U.S. army supercomputer made up of 1760 PlayStation 3s from 2010
0d5R1 TIL that the largest office building in the world is Surat Diamond Bourse, India, which is a diamond trade centre located in Surat, a place where 90% of the world's diamonds are cut & polished