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TIL that California’s economy has surpassed Russia and Italy to become the eighth-largest in the world

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ky81 TIL of a book entitled Atlanta Nights that was written by a group of sci-fi authors to be intentionally terrible as a test for the publisher PublishAmerica. It included a chapter containing computer generated random sentences and two word for word identical chapters. The publisher accepted it.
78OWP TIL in 1981, 10% of taxis in New York City were imported Peugeot 505 diesels.
y4ep TIL in 1990, Mr. Rogers sued the KKK for impersonating his voice in prerecorded messages. These messages said “AIDS was divine retribution” and included radio skits simulating lynchings of black children on a playground. The tapes were circulated among elementary and middle school children.
Re46 TIL that there are 22 different beef cuts in the US, 35 in England and France, and 120 in Korea.
dD5dE TIL About the 'Balloon Hoax'. Perpetrated by Edgar Allen Poe in The New York Sun it purported to tell the story of a three day lighter than air balloon trip across the Atlantic. The story was revealed as a hoax two days later.