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TIL: Late musician Kemistry is one of only two recorded deaths from a damaged/dislodged cat's eye (retroreflective safety device) ever.

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x68bB TIL about the Beekman Arms, America's oldest continuously operating hotel. Its guests include George Washington, Horace Greeley and William Jennings Bryan. FDR held speeches from the front porch
9YDED TIL that the best spot in New York City to watch women's skirts being whipped around was the windy area around the Flatiron Building. In fact, policemen would occasionally have to shoo away these perpetual watches, and the expression '23 Skidoo' was said to have been born on this windswept corner.
k56m TIL that 1 American consumes the same amount of resources as 32 Kenyans per year.
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jNeBN TIL of a 2014 lawsuit against Canon over a printer error code that would appear shortly after the warranty expired, which they settled out of court after agreeing to extend the warranty to anyone experiencing this code. The issue still exists in their new printers, under a different error code.