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TIL the capacity of an average garbage truck in North America -- 500-1000 homes!

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4kenN TIL the current head of the Tokugawa samurai family, which ruled Japan for over 250 years as an isolationist shogunate, grew up in the US and married a Vietnamese woman
jLZM TIL - In athletics if you move as the gun sounds, you have considered to have false started - as the human brain cannot hear and process the noise of the starting gun in under 0.10 seconds
jEbQ TIL that a roman poet wrote such an NSFW poem, that it was not publicly translated until the late twentieth century.
j6nEp TIL Śmigus-dyngus or Dyngus Day is a celebration held on Easter Monday across Central Europe and in Polish Diaspora communities. Traditionally, boys throw water over girls on Easter Monday among other rituals. In some regions they strike them with pussy willow branches instead of sprinkling water.
VQg8 TIL that if each of the US states were a separate country, the 37 countries with the highest incarceration rates would all be US states.