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TIL Los Angeles has a metro system

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awakL TIL Michael Thonet's S214 stool, designed in the 1850s, was the first stool to be produced industrially on a large scale for Europe's rapidly growing urban population in the 19th century.
LGQP TIL: “Hoser”, as popularized by Bob & Doug McKenzie, dated back to when the Losers of outdoor hockey games in Canada had to hose the surface of the rink to make is smooth again.
9Y9pQ TIL a majority of the people Christopher Walken interacted with as a child were non-native English speakers, including his father. Walken attributes his unique halting speaking style to watching people hesitate to think of the right English word.
J1gN8 TIL The F-35 cost the US $397 Billion Dollars vs $26 billion in today's cost for the entire atomic bomb project
p85ab TIL Young Francis Billington got ahold of his father's musket and shot it off inside, showering sparks around an open barrel of gunpowder and nearly blowing up the ship. The ships name? Mayflower