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TIL There are more museums in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonalds—combined

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WkgKo TIL Wedgwood Rock - an enormous erratic rock in someone's front yard in Seattle
p89J4 TIL that the word quarantine comes from an Italian variant of ‘quaranta giorni’, meaning forty days, which was the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic. They would fly this flag known as “Yellow Jack”.
M7gba TIL there was a scholarship named by a mother for her son, serial killer Harvey Glatman
wLO91 TIL: Adding an additional 20 minutes of commuting per day has the same negative effect on job satisfaction as receiving a 19% pay cut.
ykDX TIL in 1958 Alaska was hit with a Mega Tsunami that measured 1720ft tall. Taller than the Empire State Building