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TIL there is a Microsoft Excel Esports World Championship held annually.

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10Kr TIL US mothers in the year 2000 put in 30% more hours into childcare than in 1965, even though families today are far smaller, far more moms work, and far more dads help out with childcare. In total about 6x more time and effort is put into the average modern child than one in 1965.
E1bVV TIL police are called to Walmart stores 3-4 times as often as they are to other big-box retailers like Target. 25% of all arrests in St. Petersburg, FL and 92% of larceny calls in Granite Falls, NC are attributed to single Walmart locations in each city.
go07 TIL that the municipal government of Paris passed a resolution to prohibit Tom Cruise from becoming an honorary citizen of the city.
LQm8d TIL the young adult author Robert Cormier put his own home phone number in one of his novels, and thousands of readers called him at home before his death in 2000.
jNpMa TIL Ringo Starr's song Octopus's Garden on Abbey Road was written as an F-You to the other members of the Beatles in response to tensions that were threatening to, and would eventually, break up the Beatles