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TIL more people attended a 3rd division football match in the U.K. than the Super Bowl in most years

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rRpkd TIL Sichuan pepper, commonly used in Chinese cuisine, was banned in the US until 2005
wvVJ TIL John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop “drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes”. When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.
v1eVB TIL of the murder of Henryk Siwiak, on September 11, 2001. Shot and killed in Brooklyn, his murder is the only one recorded in NYC that day apart from the 9/11 attacks, and his death remains unsolved.
Z88KD TIL of A dovecote or dovecot /ˈdʌvkɒt/ (Scots: doocot) a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically in Western Europe and were kept for their eggs, flesh, and dung.
e8yE TIL that if humans ever colonize Venus, they might do so with floating cities. Because the breathable oxygen/nitrogen mixture found on Earth is lighter on Venus, it acts the same as Helium does on Earth; it not only “floats,” but can sustain weight.