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TIL 40% of millennials believe they'll never own a house.

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W7xxX TIL Boston had a horse-drawn railway system that predated its current subway in the 1850s
XEdmD TIL of the aptly named "Operation Torpedo" in which the FBI compromised 3 dark web pages by exploiting a flaw in the Tor browser and caught 19 owners of child pornography
yVnaw TIL A restaurant in Long Beach, CA, was found to be serving Popeye's chicken and passing it off as their own. They would buy the chicken at Popeyes and upcharge for their own chicken and waffles dish. Once found out the owner refused to apologize.
B7ar TIL Highlighters are typically yellow because it is the color that doesn’t leave a shadow on the page when photocopied
Z898B TIL of the 'Tamworth Two', a pair of pigs that escaped from a truck headed for a slaughterhouse in England. They were on the run for a week before they were eventually caught. The Daily Mail newspaper bought the pigs, which were then sent to an animal sanctuary to live out their lives