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TIL the United States ranks 3rd in liking the United States

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b9ZBZ TIL the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch from SNL was created purely as an excuse so Norm Macdonald could do his Burt Reynolds impersonation
VBQBk TIL more than 140 home runs have been "splash hits" since San Francisco's Oracle Park opened in 2000, 35 of those by Barry Bonds alone. At PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Josh Bell homered into the Allegheny twice in one month.
l7J6N TIL McDonald's closed in Iceland, but the last burger and fries still linger on and are now in a glass encased shrine in a guest house in South Iceland. Twelve plus years later, neither appear to have decayed one bit.
AD8w4 Goldfish actually have a pretty good memory.
aRjN TIL that since most people in Japan and China use their phones or computers to phonetically convert the Latin alphabet to type Chinese characters, more people are forgetting how to write some characters by hand. On a Chinese TV show, only 30% of participants could write “toad”, 癞蛤蟆 (Lài há ma).