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TIL Texas is so expansive that El Paso, in the western corner of the state, is closer to San Diego, California than to Houston.

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vVAB TIL some Black Friday products (i.e. cheaper TVs) are made specifically to be sold only on Black Friday, and are of lower quality than usual
gjL8 TIL despite the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine still gets 47% of its electricity from nuclear energy, compared to United States’ 19%.
88a4 TIL that anime production typically involves employing the services of 2,000 people per episode around the world and costs US$100,000-300,000 per episode
OGgNg TIL that official Pokémon cards of Katy Perry, Post Malone and J Balvin made for a 25th anniversary album were created but never mass produced. The only owners of these rare cards are the people on the cards themselves and there are no plans to release them for sale
QJaJE Today I Learned that Sega made a game called Toylet that’s installed above urinals in the Tokyo Metro.