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TIL Billy Joel never sells front row tickets at his concerts

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56VB TIL canned 100% pumpkin is actually 100% squash. Pumpkins can be stringy and watery and the USDA is lenient with gourd terminology, so it’s perfectly legal to label a food product as “pumpkin” when, in reality, it’s made from a different variety of squash.
BrBpK TIL mass deaths due to the governmental acts of criminal omission and neglect is called Democide
41kJ TIL a fire hydrant in San Francisco that survived the 1906 earthquake and aided fire fighters in saving the Mission district was painted gold in memory of the event.
4kXnX TIL that, for 25 years, "Goodnight Moon" wasn't carried at the New York Public Library because it was hated by the children's librarian.
x6l6k TIL Nearly every afternoon from September to March, a thunderstorm named Hector develops over the Tiwi Islands in northern Australia