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TIL over 86,000 people visit the ER each year from tripping or falling over their cat or dog.

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475b TIL the South Pacific island of Vanuatu banned the imports of western junk food as a way to combat future health problems.
Zpyxo TIL Burnaby, British Columbia announced a 100 year plan in 2019 to transform a large shopping mall into a downtown core with high rises, plazas, walkable streets
xVX7 TIL the first Google Doodle signified that Larry Page and Sergey Brin had gone to Burning Man and were out of the office.
M71kB TIL that only three soccer teams competed at the 1904 Olympics: the Canadian team of Galt F.C. won the gold, two teams from the USA (Christian Brothers College and St. Rose Parish) won the silver and bronze medals.
n90W TIL an ad agency successfully defeated a Tea Party push to defund and close a public library by pretending to be a Tea Party-ish organization called Safeguarding American Families, that was throwing a “Book Burning Party” to celebrate the library’s closing