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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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wEJ7 TIL that historically, milk is added before the tea and it was a sign of wealth when someone added their milk afterwards, as pouring tea with low quality porcelain would break the cup
wLOQE TIL claw machines can be rigged by programming them to have a strong grip only part of the time, allowing the owner to select a desired level of profit and then automatically adjust the claw strength to make sure that players are only winning a limited number of times
7LgO TIL of BAHFest, a satirization of TED talks produced to demonstrate that you could use a bad ad-hoc hypothesis to demonstrate anything. Like why babies are designed to be catapulted.
6Ea5m TIL a donkey can mate with a zebra and produce an offspring called a "zebrass".
jN0yn TIL of Angus Barbieri's fasting record. His fast consisted of water, tea, coffee, and vitamins. He fasted for 382 days and lost 276lbs (original weight 456lbs)