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TIL the 3 snowiest major cities in the world are all in Japan

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dD5DQ TIL Beverly Hills was planned as an all-white community with legal agreements preventing non-whites from owning or renting property. These laws also prevented Jewish people from doing the same.
A7ll TIL there was a successful peaceful revolution in Iceland from 2009-2011 where the citizens of Iceland forced their prime minister & his whole government to resign by banging pots & pans. [none of this was televised]
gMQ1L TIL that eccentric aviator Howard Hughes once paid a gas station employee $156 million after he found Hughes, disheveled and dirty, lying on the highway, and drove him back to his hotel
nek6B TIL that an exasperated village in West Virginia asked the Soviets for help to replacing a bridge after being ignored by the American government. The Soviets sent a journalist to investigate and within one hour the American government finally agreed to pay for it
kOJNE TIL In 1979 a stadium hosted Disco Demolition Night. Cost was ¢99 if you brought a disco record. 50,000 people showed up to see them blow up the records in between games. Thousands rushed the field in a frenzy. This is referred to as “The Night Disco Died” and is linked to the decline of the genre