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TIL that there is an exclusive restaurant in New York state that has a 10-year wait list

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d5oj TIL that a woman won $40,000 as a settlement from NYC due to police repeatedly arresting her for going topless in public. However, it’s perfectly legal for men and women to be topless in NYC
p8B5A TIL on Dec 26th the aristocracy distributed presents (boxes) to servants and employees, who returned home, opened their boxes and had a second Christmas on what became known as "Boxing Day."
ldnB TIL There are only two countries in the world where 100% of the population are recorded as being English speakers. These are Gibraltar and Nauru.
J1mxv TIL That Wile E. Coyote got killed over two hundred different ways in total between 1949 and 2021
VMM1D TIL that researchers who have studied Coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, believe there is some correlation to the uncanny valley effect, in which a figure is lifelike enough to be disturbing, but not realistic enough to be pleasant.