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TIL That Seahorses Lack A Stomach & Need To Constantly Eat To Stay Living

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woD11 TIL that Las Vegas was officially founded in 1905 by a group of developers seeking to build a railroad stop in the desert between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. The city's name is derived from the Spanish word “vegas,” meaning meadows, and it was originally intended as a green oasis in the desert.
jNGPN TIL that the Soviet Union won the 10th Correspondence Chess Olympiad, which started in 1987 and ended in... 1995. East Germany took 3rd.
4vOb TIL The developers of famous movies such as Forest Gump, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Return of the Jedi and many others use “Hollywood Accounting” to inflate expenses and show a net loss. This allowed them to completely dodge payments to writers that agreed to be paid a percentage of net profit.
JG0k TIL the city of Medellin, Colombia reduced motorcycle assassinations by 39% when it banned male passengers from riding on the back of motorbikes
5YQ5Q TIL of US president Grover Cleveland's wife. She was the youngest first lady, the first to be married in the White House, and the first to give birth while her husband was president. Grover met her shortly after she was born, when he was 27.