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TIL that the Griechenbeisl restaurant in Vienna, Austria has been open since 1447 and the most famous guests have been Mozart, Beethoven, and Mark Twain.

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BgO7L TIL that the planning documents for the lower Thames crossing (a proposed road crossing in England) are 359,866 pages long across 2,383 documents, and laid end to end would stretch 66 miles -- 5 times longer than the proposed road itself
4karo TIL of Buttergate - a 2021 controversy caused by Canadian dairy farmers adding palm oil to cows' diets, resulting in butter that didn't spread at room temperature.
neQMY TIL in 1907 the US Supreme Court ruled that "a woman is not a person", barring a woman from practicing law. That same year, a woman arrested for drunkenness argued, and won her case, that she could not be charged because she was not a person and therefore not held accountable to the law.
YpZKr TIL US President Benjamin Harrison had electric lights installed in the White House, but would sleep with the lights on because he was too afraid to touch the switches.
DeEv TIL In the original version of The Hobbit, Gollum willingly bets the ring on the outcome of the Riddle Game, and they part on friendly terms. It was later revised to it’s current version to fit Tolkien’s planned sequel.