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TIL in the 70’s McDonald’s was forced to redesign its coffee spoon because it was being used for snorting and measure cocaine

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VBRk0 TIL the 1970s rock band Bay City Rollers, known for the pop hit "Saturday Night", was a Scottish band that wanted an American name, so they brainstormed by throwing darts at a US map. They declined Arkansas from the first dart, but the second dart landed on Bay City, Michigan.
njZG TIL there was a subspecies a human known as homo florsiensis which went extinct only 12,000 years ago. They grew no larger than 4 feet tall and have been nicknamed “hobbits” by scientists.
xVBmg TIL: there is an engineering marvel in Norway. One huge platform stand on just one concrete column in the sea with 251 meters height! I just wonder how they built it till I watched this documentary about it.
69mgw TIL Washington DC wasn't built on a swamp
yVjlJ TIL: There is a Single Street in a Residential Neighborhood in Newport Beach, CA that is Zoned to Allow Kennels to Operate