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TIL A man spent $20,000 cleaning a vacant city lot, until the city of Philadelphia threatened him with legal action unless he stopped.

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8JpZ TIL in 1561 the citizens of Nuremberg witnessed an aerial battle of UFOs that lasted for over an hour, with strangely shaped objects fighting each other until one side was the victor. There was even a crash landing, whos wreckage was taken away in the end by a vessel
4XeB5 TIL about Mariya Oktyabrskaya. When her husband was killed in 1941, she paid for a tank, named it "Fighting Girlfriend," and distinguished herself as a fearless and deadly tank driver, often repairing her tank under heavy fire. After she died in March 1944, she was named a Hero of the Soviet Union.
GYkmN TIL the writer of the Chili’s Baby Back Ribs jingle wrote it in 5 minutes, had the songwriting rights taken away from him, and has never had baby back ribs from Chili’s.
VLlD TIL, the pointy bullet used by modern militaries is called a spitzer, a shortening of the german word for “pointy bullet”.
OovRY TIL the EU has banned 1,300 chemicals used in cosmetics, the US has only banned 11.