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TIL up to 30% of the traffic in cities is just people driving around looking for a place to park.

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D1d8g TIL in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick intentionally isolated Shelley Duvall and argued with her often. Duvall was forced to perform the iconic and exhausting baseball bat scene 127 times. Afterwards, Duvall presented Kubrick with clumps of hair that had fallen out due to the extreme stress of filming.
R7G6 TIL that Mexico threatened to stop buying US corn unless they could sell the US avocados.
LQgBP TIL of Harvester, a 1996 video game known to be one of the most violent and disturbing video games made, with Germany even banning it. Developed in 1994, it was released two years later due to how long it took to code the game.
ADALB TIL In the 1830's the average household drank 7 gallons of ethanol per year. That's 3.4 bottles of Jim Beam per week.
NBeb TIL: A perpetual world calendar (matching days of the week with dates every year) was nearly internationally adopted after WW2 until organized religion ended the attempt.