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TIL: 1962: At a school in present-day Tanzania, three girls experience an extremely contagious fit of laughter. Classes are canceled for months.

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X0ADX TIL that the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City is so long with such tall towers that the top of the towers are 1 5/8 inches farther apart at their tops than at their bases. This is because the distance between the towers made it necessary to compensate for the earth’s curvature.
78PmP TIL that according to former employees, the painter Thomas Kinkade, known for his enormously popular prints and hundreds of licensed galleries, once urinated on a statue of Winnie the Pooh at Disneyland, and repeatedly shouted "codpiece" at a Las Vegas magic show until his mother calmed him down.
VbeZ TIL fedoras were originally a fashionable piece of clothing for women’s rights activists
NXb5P TIL there is no time limit that you must wait 24 or 48 hours to report a person as missing, whether he/she is considered missing or a runaway. you don’t have to know the reason why someone is missing, or worry about filing a false report.
8gvK TIL Jerry Seinfeld asked Joan Rivers to be the first guest on Season 5 of “Comedians in Cars”. She postponed due to a scheduled medical procedure but eventually died due to complications during said procedure.