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TIL Yuma, Arizona is known as the sunniest city on earth. They have more than 4000 sunlight hours a year, meaning at least 90% of their year consists of sunny days.

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b60b0 TIL in 2007, the town of Tamaqua PA passed a law granting ecosystems legal rights. Any resident can file a lawsuit on behalf of the ecosystem.
Y1ox TIL: A 63-year-old man travelled from Windsor to Toronto to fulfil a lifelong dream of visiting a Legoland Discovery Centre, was turned away because he didn’t have a child with him. Legoland has a policy that requires adults to be accompanied by children.
VbDm TIL that in the late 1960s, the Shah of Iran sent a series of letters to the King of Saudi Arabia, saying, “Please, my brother, modernize. Open up your country. Make the schools mixed. Let women wear miniskirts. Have discos. Be modern. Otherwise I cannot guarantee you will stay on your throne.”
e0MNn TIL In Japan, more paper is used to print manga than is used to make toilet paper
lo1O1 TIL: George Orwell, the author of 1984, was the one who coined the term "cold war" to describe post-WWII relationship between the US and the USSR. He used it to describe the new landscape that the atom bomb created.