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TIL a 1.5 ton A/C unit does NOT weigh 1.5 tons, but rather describes the amount of heat that can be removed from a space in one hour.

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rKa0 TIL Animal Crossing was originally a Japan exclusive game ported to America, but Japan was so impressed with the results of the translation they wanted it translated back into Japanese.
BgpLe TIL up until 1995, there were no Burger Kings in the Canadian province of Alberta north of the 52nd parallel. This was due to a restaurant in Edmonton already having the name Burger King.
wL7R1 TIL that even though they existed for about 165 million years, only about 700 species of dinosaur have been discovered to date.
x6oLb TIL that candies such as candy corn, whoppers and milk duds are covered in an insect secretion
0bGR TIL The Murchison meteorite that crashed in Australia contains uracil and xanthine (guanine derivative) nucleobases (DNA components) that were proven to be of non-Earth origin/contamination due to the amount of carbon-13.