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TIL A person with damage to the right brain hemisphere can develope a "joke addiction", a compulsive need to constantly make jokes

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4Xlmb TIL that Tampa, Florida has never recorded a single day over 100 degrees fahrenheit
j5La TIL that the US military recruits more people per capita from the Federated States of Micronesia than from any US state.
yQala TIL There is a species of broccoli called Lieutenant Broccoli.
aw6Do TIL in four boroughs of New York City, excluding Staten Island, there has been a 25 to 35 percent reduction in alcohol-related car accidents since Uber came to town in 2011.
nejvb TIL that tongue twister 'she sells seashells by the seashore' is about a real girl named Mary Anning. She also happened to be one of the very first people to discover a massive dinosaur fossil, which she did at age 12 while looking for seashells to sell by the seashore.