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TIL The US Chamber of Commerce tracks how lonely American cities are.

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XklX TIL In 1964, during their first American tour, The Beatles refused to play their scheduled concert in Jacksonville until the audience was desegregated.
J1YMQ TIL, the round symbol with black corners coming from the center of it that are used as fiducial markers in crash test dummies and crash test cars is called the Secchi disk. It was invented in 1865 in an era when automobiles weren't an everyday driving vehicle for the masses.
aMo TIL, the actual span of time that was supposed to have lapsed in the movie Groundhog Day was around 10,000 years.
Brank TIL of bog butter—an ancient waxy substance often found buried in peat bogs that was used as a way of preserving butter in ancient Ireland. The butter would gain flavor notes from its surroundings that were namely described as “gamey,” “moss,” “funky,” “pungent,” and “salami.”
WEYB TIL a bear almost caused a nuclear war