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TIL "Second Breakfast" is not just a LOTR meme, and is in fact tradition in many countries

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1aNPO TIL: In the State of California sneaking into a movie theater, leaving an unpaid bill at a restaurant or using a ski slope without paying are all examples of the crime of "defrauding an innkeeper"
Ka4Q TIL that ‘Gangnam style’ was intended to poke fun at people who put on airs and pretended to be fashionable or classy, like people from the Gangnam district of Seoul
ZJJv TIL that a Googolplex, or 10^(10^100), is a number so large that in written form, it would not fit within the observed universe.
6EpaJ TIL The Big Ben is the name of the bell, not the Clock Tower and it sounds an E Natural
ZpMyQ TIL that the quasar 3C 273 is so incredibly bright that if it were 36 lightyears away it would appear brighter than the sun in our sky, and is 4 trillion times brighter than our star.