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TIL there was a Subway restaurant at the top of the One World Trade Centre construction site, when workers finished a floor, it'd be raised to the next one!

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69AWW TIL of “Sundown Town”. Sundown towns are all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States that practice a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation or violence.
P1Dog TIL that only three countries can enter the United States and move freely without the need for any visa or travel documents other than a passport: Palau, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands. The agreement was signed in 1983 and will not expire until 2043.
epjvb TIL In 1983, it was announced on radio that the hard to find Cabbage Patch Dolls would be dropped from a plane at County Stadium. People just needed to hold up a catcher’s mitt and their credit card, to be photographed by the plane. 20-30 people fell for the prank and showed up at the stadium.
DngY TIL that a school in Pennsylvania got students to donate money to Katrina victims by playing “MMMBop” in the halls, the only way to make it stop being to donate. In response, Hanson matched the school’s donation and sent every student a copy of their latest album.
KYXw9 TIL that the saloon and general store from Fallout: New Vegas' starting zone, Goodsprings, actually exist