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TIL That Houston Texas is the only large city to have no zoning laws which means you can build a bar next to a school or a shooting range next to a gas station etc

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M7GaB TIL in 2018, Scientists identified the earliest known animal in the geological record as a 558-million-year-old oval-shaped creature known as Dickinsonia that may have borne a superficial resemblance to a segmented jellyfish.
7rb7x TIL of Primate Cities, which are cities that are dominant in their country/subdivision in such a way that it is the centre of said country/subdivision (e.g. New York City in the state of New York)
BrpbD TIL that Mark Twain hated Jane Austen's books and summarized his opinion of her by saying "every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin bone!”
yQ8ap TIL that during WW2, fewer than 1,000 Polish soldiers repelled a Nazi invasion force of 42,200 infantry and 350 tanks for three days, after which the Polish commanding officer commit suicide by throwing himself on a live grenade
x6P6k TIL about Tangier Island, a community of ~500 off the coast of Virginia that live on a sinking island and speak a unique form of Old English