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TIL that Lebron James has a considerable effect on the economy of whatever city he is playing for.

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yVkYJ TIL No more than two flies are allowed by law in any public toilet in Beijing, China. In 2012 Authorities in the Chinese capital set new standards for public toilets, including a stipulation that they should contain no more than two flies.
lo6DA TIL that the Portuguese man o’ war isn’t actually a jellyfish, but a colony of individual organisms called zooids, each with a different function within the ‘body’
l9MG TIL that in Star Wars Tales #19: Han Solo travels through time and crashes on Earth. Han is killed in an attack by Natives, but Chewbacca lives and becomes the Sasquatch. 126 years later, Indiana Jones is tracking down the Sasquatch only to find the crashed Millennium Falcon and the body of Han Solo
OGaJ6 TIL there are ten songs in the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962 with the word "Twist" in the title including Chubby Checker's "The Twist," Chubby Checker's "Slow Twistin'," Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away," Joey Dee and the Starliters' "Peppermint Twist," and Gary U.S. Bonds' "Dear Lady Twist
0Zx1 TIL The first person sentenced to the stocks in Boston was Edward Palmer, the builder of said stocks. His crime: Charging too much for building the stocks.