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TIL honey is the only food that doesn’t spoil
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TIL that in 2008, the city of Chicago sold the rights to collect revenue from its parking meters to a foreign-owned company, receiving a sum of $1.2 billion against a 75 year lease. Investors have collected $2.1 billion so far, for a yearly RoR of only 4.3%. Chicago has made a handsome profit.
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TIL that the guy who wrote the first ‘On the internet, nobody knows youre a dog’ has made $50,000 USD from it.
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TIL all things observable–the stars, planets and galaxies that can be seen today–make up just 4% of the universe. The other 96% is made of stuff astronomers can’t see, detect or even comprehend.
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TIL: There is a wooden statue of Rambo from First Blood, in Hope, BC, Canada to commemorate the filming of the movie there.
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TIL Silver foxes were selectively bred for domestication in the 1950's in order to study evolution. As with dogs, the ears started to droop as physical manifestation of docility, and some even started vocalizing barks as like dogs