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TIL In 1961, Gainesville established a city ordinance that prohibits diners from eating fried chicken with anything other than their bare hands.

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X0Xgj TIL that Comet Swift-Tuttle is the largest comet to make repeated close approaches to Earth. A collision would release 27 times the energy of the impact that caused the extinction of dinosaurs. It has been described as "the single most dangerous object known to humanity".
9wk17 TIL in 1931, during the Great Depression, there were so many news accounts of starving USA citizens that colonial-era Cameroon in west Africa raised money for Americans as aid. They collected $3.77 - about $70 today.
x6m8B TIL that it is an ancient Celtic tribe, settled in Thrace, which founded Sardica, present-day Sofia in Bulgaria.
Z8YLG TIL: Woolly Mammoths were still alive by the time the pyramids at Giza were completed. The last woolly mammoths died out on Wrangel Island, north of Russia, only 4000 years ago, leaving several centuries where the pyramids and mammoths existed at the same time.
nxx7 TIL that when Harry Truman was 26, he never had a girlfriend. He sent a letter that year to his lifelong crush asking to marry him. Three weeks later, she responded by rejecting him.