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TIL The Empire State Building is struck by lightning 25 times each year.

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d9Od TIL raising your right hand to swear in court was a precursor to criminal records. The court would brand the hand of convicts who received leniency from the court, and therefore could not receive the privilege twice.
gMbAW TIL that William Shakespeare wrote a play based on an incident in Miguel de Cervantes's 'Don Quixote'. The text is now lost, but there are two plays by later authors suspected of being reworked versions of Shakespeare's original text with the names of the characters changed
dap8 TIL the rating on the IMDB page for This is Spinal Tap goes to 11
b9Lrp TIL the early Essex class carriers of WWII had a bizarre hangar deck catapult across the lower deck of the ship in order to launch scout planes out the side of the ship.
EgbBV TIL that up until at least 2001, cattle that died in the Austrian Alps was blown up rather than hauled away via helicopter