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TIL Over 900,000 earthquakes occur worldwide each year.

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ZpL0Q TiL when Burt Bacharach and Hal David gave their song "Make it Easy on Yourself" to Jerry Butler instead of Dionne Warwick, she angrily responded "Don't make me over!" The two writers wrote a new song around the phrase, and it became the first top 40 hit single for Bacharach, David, AND Warwick.
JZNv TIL the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, which delays laws affecting Congressional salary from taking effect until after the next election of representatives, took 202 years to pass. It was outstanding from Sept 25, 1789 until May 5, 1992.
GAN15 TIL there are 5 Chili's restaurants in Chile.
5YBG9 TIL that in 2013, a head injury left an Australian woman with a French accent. This is a case of foreign accent syndrome, which is a medical condition in which patients acquire a foreign accent through a stroke or head trauma.
xwnk TIL the U.S. spends 2 billion dollars a year on mayonnaise. More than twice as much as they spend on ketchup.