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TIL Over 900,000 earthquakes occur worldwide each year.

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69dEw TIL Seattle Public Library has made their ebook collection available to to 13-26 year olds living anywhere in the US
LQopp TIL that 75% of Canadian English-language TV shows are from the US. By contrast, the top ten TV shows in Quebec are all local productions. While French Canadians love watching American films dubbed in English, they prefer low-budget Quebec TV shows (téléromans) to big-budget American ones.
695VQ TIL that there was a 47% increase in losses to fraud calls from $6.9 Billion in 2021, to $10.2 billion in 2022.
JYkVl TIL of "Sputnikfest" an annual celebration held in the city of Manitowoc, WI where people dress up as aliens and science fiction characters to commemorate a 20lb piece of a Russian satellite crashing down in the city back in 1962
e665 TIL for upon their death, survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona during Pearl Harbor may have their ashes placed within the ship, among their fallen comrades.