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TIL There is a hot dog stand in California that has a lawyer on hand to give free legal advice on Wednesdays to anyone who needs it.

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gr8gX TIL compasses are made differently for northern & southern hemispheres, because the magnetic field dips N / S. This requires the needle to be counter-weighted at the S end for northern hemisphere & vice versa. A northern compass used below the equator would likely drag its S tip on the compass base!
jN7WM TIL that on the episode of Breaking Bad where Walt throws a whole pizza onto the roof of his house in anger, the pizza was real and Bryan Cranston nailed it in one take.
9w09D TIL that after being investigated by the FTC for their pyramid scheme-like business practices, the FTC charged Herbalife $200 million but failed to outright call them a pyramid scheme.
x6l0k TIL Stephen King has almost no memory of writing Cujo because of problems he had at the time with cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, Robitussin and mouthwash
QNdnM TIL of The Colossus of Prora, a 2.8 mi / 4.5 km long building complex on the island of Rügen, built by Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1939