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TIL the 20 most expensive license fees for New York hotdog carts are all for carts in Central Park. One man who has a cart at Fifth Avenue and East 62nd St. near the Central Park Zoo pays $289,500 every year for license.

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NX49M TIL of the neenish tart - a type of pastry popular only in New Zealand, Australia and ... the Falkland Islands.
WZRX TIL that the hook at the end of a tape measure is loose on purpose. It slides back and forth the width of the hook, making your measurement correct if you push the hook against something or hook it over something
mJDv TIL during the Napoleonic Wars the English Navy inflicted over 3 times as many casualties on the French Navy than the French Navy inflicted on the English Navy, in part because French gun crews fired high to disable enemy masts & rigging while English gun crews fired low into enemy gun crews & hulls
kgj4 TIL a member of the WWII Canadian forces, Leo Major, single-handedly captured 93 Nazi’s at once, and liberated a town in the Netherlands on his own as well.
GYpbJ TIL that during WWII 15% of the steel production in the US--180 tons an hour--went across the Hot Metal Bridge in Pittsburgh--as molten steel in huge crucibles built into special rail cars.