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TIL of the hexamyriapentachiliapentahectatriacontaheptagon, a polygon with 65,537 sides.

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5YvR8 TIL about Supreme Court Judge Joseph Force Crater, who became the "missingest man in New York," when he disappeared on the streets of Manhattan in 1930. On the day he destroyed several documents, shifted portfolios to his 5th Ave apartment and withdrew $5000. He was declared legally dead in 1939.
XEvRD TIL that in 2019, A&W became the first franchised restaurant chain to turn 100 years old
1a887 TIL a 2017 University of Iowa experiment concluded that pigeons can understand concepts of space and time, but not exactly how they do it. The birds “judged longer lines to also have longer duration and judged lines longer in duration to also be longer in length.”
Wxb9 TIL pinball was illegal for over 30 years in America and even had it’s own crime boss who specialized in the illegal pinball machine industry.
yQAAv TIL that cement is to concrete as flour is to cake. Cement is a component of concrete.