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TIL that the Michelin stars restaurants receive are based off of whether you would travel a long distance to eat there, and that it started as a marketing ploy by Michelin tires in the 1900's

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69E58 TIL the cruise ship MS Oasis of the Seas gets a gas mileage of 437 gallons per mile (gpm), or 12 feet per gallon
Ool97 TIL one of the first mass produced Treadmills were by Sir William Cubitt in 1818, who used it to torture inmates in jails of England. It consisted of 24 inmates side by side, with partitions. This pointless labor was meant to deter poor people from committing crimes to just get in jail for shelter.
OobWR TIL that Kalawao County, Hawaii is the smallest county in the US in terms of land size (12 sq. mi. of land) and one of the least populated (approx. 90 people). It was a quarantine settlement for people with Hansen's Disease (leprosy).
W8JL TIL about Saint Patrick’s Batallion, a group of 700 Irish and African-Americans who rebelled during America’s invasion of Mexico and fought on the Mexican side. A 1999 film about them was censored by its US distributor and never shown.
wLLBE It's not that meanies are more physically attractive than everyone else. They're just very good at fooling us.