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TIL Universal Studio's Colonial Street set has been home to Desperate Housewives, Psycho, Leave It To Beaver, The Munsters, The Hardy Boys, The Burbs, Dragnet, Delta House,Nancy Drew, The House Of the Seven Gables and more, all on the same "street". Built in the 1950, it remains in use today.

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8eRLV TIL one of the earliest and most iconic Nike shoe tread, the “waffle sole” was designed literally by its inventor, Bill Bowerman, pouring rubber into his wife’s Belgian waffle iron.
X7pP TIL the name of the TIME magazine actually stands for “The International Magazine of Events”
wLKo6 TIL the so-called ‘Pillars of Creation’, which are to be found within the Eagle Nebula. The nebula lies 6,500 light years away. The ‘pillar’ on the left is 4 light-years high, which is around 24,000,000,000,000 miles, (24 trillion).
K7G4 TIL Moriusaq, Greenland had a population of 3 in 2009. A case of self defense dropped the population to 2.
XPP6 TIL in LOTR Elrond and Aragorn were distantly related through Elrond’s brother, Elros