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TIL that Houston, Texas is the only major city in the U.S. that has no zoning laws.

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ZEM4 TIL the Jamaican bobsled team returned to the Winter Olympics in ‘14 after failing to qualify in '06 & '10. Lacking funds, the cryptocurrency Dogecoin community raised $30,000 on the teams behalf in two days
ANkdw TIL There are only two confirmed cases of a Kangaroo fatally attacking a person: attacking a hunter in 1936 and a 77 year old woman in 2022. In contrast Lulu, a pet kangaroo, saved a farmers life by alerting the farmers family after a tree fell upon him in 2003.
R7jXj TIL John F. Kennedy Donated His Congressional & Presidential Salaries to Charity
ObZ1 TIL of the Uru people, who live on 42 artificial floating islands made of reeds in Lake Titicaca.
loevN TIL 5,600 Americans died during the building of the Panama Canal, and 22,000 French workers died before the Americans took the job over.