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TIL One out of every four bridges in America either carries more traffic than originally intended or is in need of repair.

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aw4GA TIL 'Friends' (NBC, 1994) was nearly a ripoff of 'Living Single (Fox, 1993) - albeit a really good one. 6 white friends in Manhattan vs 6 black friends in Brooklyn with similar themes across episodes.
b96LN TIL the makers of Vitamin Water produce a sugar free line called Vitamin Water Zero with no sugar, so cry baby consumers have a choice.
ZpwKR TIL there’s a baseball diamond on Area 51
vlGB TIL in 1973, three astronauts on the Skylab 4 space station went on strike after being over worked, demanding more time for contemplating the universe and in Pogue’s words “studying the, the Earth below, and ourselves”: the first strike in space.
WkwOo TIL 3–15% of alcoholics commit suicide, and over 50% of all suicides are associated with alcohol or drug dependence, due to alcohol causing physiological distortion of brain chemistry, as well as social isolation.