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TIL there are 5 Chili's restaurants in Chile.

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VBNrQ TIL China currently operates 69% of all High Speed Rail in existence, stretching 4600km from the far west of the country (Kashgar Prefecture) to its eastern-most city (Fuyuan). The next-highest is Spain, with only 6%.
awJkL TIL Spider-Man could have been a fly. Stan Lee said "I saw a fly crawling on a wall. And I said, 'Boy, it would be great if I could get a superhero who could stick to walls like an insect.'" He considered "Insect Man, Fly Man, Stick-to-Wall Man, Mosquito Man... none of them sounded good enough."
16W0W TIL Norman Rockwell’s “Rosie the Riveter” was inspired by Michelangelo’s “The Prophet of Isaiah”
Rny7 TIL Eric Clapton and George Harrison once had a two hour long guitar duel for the love of Harrison’s wife, Pattie. She is said to have inspired songs by both artists, such as “Wonderful Tonight” and “Something”.
p8QDp TIL There is a park in Amsterdam called Vondelpark where adults were legally allowed to have sex in the park, as long as they took their garbage with them afterwards and never had intercourse near the playground. Sexual activities were to be limited to the evening hours and night.