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TIL spaghetti never breaks into 2, but more pieces

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E1bVV TIL police are called to Walmart stores 3-4 times as often as they are to other big-box retailers like Target. 25% of all arrests in St. Petersburg, FL and 92% of larceny calls in Granite Falls, NC are attributed to single Walmart locations in each city.
1awe4 TIL in 2008 a man bought a used car and registered it in his girlfriends name without her knowing. When they broke up one year later he parked it at Chicago’s O'Hare Airport racking up more than $100,000 in parking ticket fines in her name.
nWnwo TIL: The hyphens over Chinese vowels, when written using the Latin alphabet, describes how to properly pronounce the vowels in Chinese. Eg. à goes from high tonality to low
vP5Zr TIL Emperor Genghis Khan's conquests caused such devastation that vegetation regrowth in his enemies' former lands led to a notable decrease in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
v1Xb8 TIL The “Wrong Table Ring in Wine Proposal” featured in season 2 of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ in which the ring belonged to an extra, was a REAL proposal unknown to his girlfriend.