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TIL Jewish Americans have made a tradition of eating Chinese food during the holiday season since the early 1900s

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X0XlX TIL that the least densely populated county in the US east of the Mississippi River is Hamilton County, NY with 3 people/sq mi (1.2/km2).
J1Ov8 TIL that the Brihadeshwara (Big) Temple, Thanjavur, India, has survived, perfectly intact, 1000 years of aging, six earthquakes, many monsoons and at least one big fire even though built without using any binding material.
9wXWD TIL in 1973 two freshwater crocodiles escaped from Taronga Zoo in Australia by scaling a 2.5-meter (8 feet) mesh fence. The zoo intially reported the crocs had been stolen (which made national headlines) because they actually thought it was physically impossible for the crocs to scale the fence.
XEgmE TIL Aetheraed's epithet (The Unready) does not derive from the modern word , but rather from the Old English unræd meaning "poorly advised"; it is a pun on his name, which means "well advised".
DQgoV TIL the 1978 Saturday Night Live song "King Tut" with Steve Martin was one of the most expensive sketches the show had attempted at the time. Producer Lorne Michaels put everything behind the production.