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TIL the concept for having a “credit score” to judge if you could receive a loan didn’t exist until 1989

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WkwwL TIL when Stephen King was run over by a car in 1999 the driver apologised and said he'd never even gotten a parking ticket before. King, lying injured, replied: 'well, I've never been hit by a car before'.
V4nB TIL the color of the twist tie on bread products indicates what day of the week it was made.
6ED4Z TIL each day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus (243 earth days vs 225)
780xP TIL Mel Brooks wrote the lyrics to the Sherwood Forest Rap
lwp1 TIL that a Canadian town is giving away free land. Dalhousie, New Brunswick’s population has dropped by 21% in 15 years, and is giving away parcels valued at up to C$50,000 to “anybody who’s interested — an entrepreneur or business. We’ll give ‘em the property”.