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TIL it can cost $289,500 a year just for the right to operate a single hot dog cart in Central Park.

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l7X51 TIL that there is a more human way of extracting silk from Sikworms instead of boiling them alive, called Ahimsa Silk. But we choose cruelty anyways!
wL596 TIL that Dante Basco, who played Rufio in Hook, is the voice actor for Prince Zuko in Avatar the Last Airbender
505Q TIL that East St. Louis has a higher murder rate than Honduras, the country with the highest murder rate in the world
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