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TIL South San Francisco (a city distinct from San Francisco) does not border San Francisco at all. In fact, they're not even in the same county. Several cities separate the two.

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b6ZR4 TIL of the Order of Malta Passport. It's the rarest passport in the world and is only issued to a few hundred people.
69818 TIL Back to the Future's George McFly was only played by Crispin Glover in the first movie - for parts 2 and 3, it was actor Jeffrey Weissman wearing a Crispin Glover face-mold
Mk58 TIL that when Arthur Guinness started his brewery in Dublin, he signed a 9000 year lease for the factory with annual payments of £45.
rRowW TIL there was a TV show based on Fast Times at Ridgemont High
8aa8X TIL of the term "Sitzkrieg" which describes the lack of major military action during an active war, mainly describing the eight months of time between when Great Britain and France declared war on Germany before any major operations were executed.