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TIL That the 3 lines button is offically called the Hamburger button

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7rKX TIL that there’s a muffin shop in San Francisco called Double or Muffin. You buy a muffin and then flip a coin. Get heads and you get another muffin for free. Tails and you just keep the muffin you bought. Double, or muffin.
R7666 TIL Palm Springs, California has their own Walk of Stars for people who lived in the PS area. Inductees include Chevy Chase, Natalie Wood, Kem Dibs, Ronald Reagan, and Cheeta the Chimp
QJNYk TIL That the world's oldest university still in operation was founded by a Muslim woman in 859 AD
mGdo TIL of quasar 3c273, which is 4 trillion times brighter than the sun, and 100 times brighter than the output of all the stars in the milkyway. It’s so bright, that if it were 33 light years away, it would shine just as bright in the sky as the sun, which is only 8 light minutes away.
LkXKV TIL that an artist made a counterfeit penny out of $100 worth of gold, which he copper-plated and then put into circulation in Los Angeles. Two years later, it was found in New York.