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TIL Soaking up grease from a slice of pizza with a napkin saves you about 40 calories.

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KOxla TIL Ninepin bowling (with the pins arranged in a diamond pattern) was outlawed in Connecticut and New York during the early 1800s because it was associated with heavy gambling. This led to the addition of a tenth pin (arranged in the now-common triangular pattern) to circumvent the law.
j61nv TIL: Gin and Tonic glows in the dark because tonic water contains quinine, which absorbs ultraviolet light and re-emits it as visible light.
KOdjB TIL in South Korea to rent an apartment you have to pay lump sum up to 80% of the value of it. You then live "rent free" for two years, then get your money back.
NXYr8 TIL of Steal This Wiki, an updated version of Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book", a guide to fighting corporations and unjust governments
eXw6 TIL that the Secret Service purchased a 1907 White Motor Company steam car to follow President Theodore Roosevelt’s horse-drawn carriage. The president himself eschewed riding in the vehicle due to his “image as a rough-riding horseman”.