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TIL There are no Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants in Buffalo

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MeYv7 TIL the bass line in "Rapper's Delight" is not a direct sample of Chic's "Good Times"- rather, the producer paid a 17-year old bassist to play the same line for 15 minutes straight, with no mistakes.
x6L47 TIL Hawaii has an endemic Hawk | The Hawaiian hawk or ʻio (Buteo solitarius) is a raptor in the genus Buteo endemic to Hawaii, Currently restricted to the Big Island. The ʻio is one of two extant birds of prey that are native to Hawaii, the other being the pueo
Me9Em TIL that Uranus smells like farts because its atmosphere consists largely of hydorgen sulfide.
e07QL TIL of Boustrophedon or "Ox-Turning", a method where ancient writers would write left-to-right on one line and right-to-left (mirrored) on the next line, alternating each line until the end of the writing; a method that is easier to read than what we read today.
x6Ep0 TIL that the .com TLD was originally operared by the US Department of Defense, and still falls under US Jurisdiction.