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TIL - In Milwaukee, it is a Christmas tradition to eat raw ground beef and onions on rye bread

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D1DeY TIL In 1999, a large fragment of a window fell from the CNA Center and killed a woman walking with her child. CNA Financial paid $18 million to settle the resultant lawsuit. Windows had been cracking since it had been built in 1975 and all of the building's windows were replaced in a retrofit.
KPYR TIL that due to the inclusion of a leap day and two leap seconds, 1972 is the longest year in history.
BrPYL TIL that the TIE fighters in Star Wars were named that way because George Lucas thought they looked like bow ties.
p8GNb TIL that Mars experiences all four seasons similarly to Earth but twice as long due to its axes tilted at 25° and the length of its orbit around the Sun.
wej7 TIL The US government shutdown 15 times in 14 years between 1976 and 1990.