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TIL That Nicolas Cage is Francis Ford Coppola's nephew. He changed his name to avoid accusations of nepotism.

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R7dWw TIL someone born in Shenzhen in 1980 would've started school in a tiny town about the size of Ithaca, NY or Port Huron, MI (30,000 population) and would now be living in the 24th largest city in the world, with more people than Paris (12 million+ population).
lod9a TIL about Benford's law: if you take natural sets of numbers (like lenghts of rivers, population of cities, financial transactions..), probability of first number is not even. There is 30% probability for number to start with 1, and only to 5% for 9. It is so reliable it is used to defect fraud!
5VDVr TIL about Manhattanhenge - a phenomenon where the sun sinks (or rises) directly between the grid of Manhattans skyline
yDdV TIL there is a theory that cats became domesticated because they adapted to hunting the vermin found around humans in towns and villages. They were tolerated by people and gradually diverged from their wild relatives through natural selection.
R5dYw TIL of the Toyota War, named like that, because of the Toyota pick up trucks used for transport and mobility