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TIL the first games in the Pokémon series, Red and Blue, contained 150 Pokémon as a reference to Dunbar's number, the number of relationships a single human being can have and properly maintain.

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6EAal TIL over a hundred years ago, virtually every American city had public streetcars that people took to work. That includes cities we don't think of as hubs for mass transit today, like Atlanta, Raleigh, and Los Angeles. Today, just 5 percent of U.S. workers commute via via public transit.
1agn8 TIL Former Triple Crown winner American Pharoah has sex 3 times a day everyday and his owners charge a fee of $200,00. This leads to an annual revenue of about $30,000,000.
grZJb TIL that sloths only move an average of 40 yards (36.576 meters) per day when they are on land and in trees. In the water, they could cover that distance in just under 3 minutes.
m1YlR TIL, A 50yr old inmate named James Washington confessed to murdering a Nashville woman 17 yrs ago while on his deathbed, presumably thinking he was about to die. He ended up surviving & was convicted for his confession, which he later tried to recant
5EjQ TIL that there are women out there called “tetrachromats” who, through mutation, can see millions of more colors than normal people.