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TIL all San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board-members are required to ride transit at least once a week

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Me04K TIL due to being so well known, Steve Wozniak completed his college degree at UC Berkley under the name "Rocky Raccoon Clark".
GAa9E TIL about the Dionne quintuplets born in 1934. They were a media sensation and the first recorded quintuplets to survive infancy. Born to poor people, so the Canadian authorities took the children from their parents and turned them into a tourist attraction called Quintland.
Wmo4 TIL In 2015 a Chinese woman who was missing for a decade & presumed dead was found living in an internet cafe after playing games for 10 years.
X0ADX TIL that the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City is so long with such tall towers that the top of the towers are 1 5/8 inches farther apart at their tops than at their bases. This is because the distance between the towers made it necessary to compensate for the earth’s curvature.
4XXWb Short answer: Every once in a (very long) while