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TIL that FEMA uses Waffle Houses being open as an indicator of how bad a natural disaster is.

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d8PgK TIL the "G" in "G-Spot" stands for Gräfenberg, a german gynecologist who studied female sexual physiology.
kJaW1 TIL about Ban Khun Samut Chin, a village in Thailand that has suffered 1.1- 2km shoreline retreat and has only 4 students left at the local school. It is unknown how long locals can keep living there.
R5p71 TIL most movies are displayed at 24 frames per second (fps). For context - most video games can look bad below 60 fps. The reason they still look "good" to us is because cameras capture "motion blur", which tricks the brain into nicely stitching frames together.
P1knZ TIL In 1990, over 100,000 people visited San Luis Obispo during the Cal Poly Poly Royal event. A full scale riot broke out both in town and at the college when several thousand students and visitors began throwing bottles and rocks at police, flipping cars and various other destructive activities.
JYK7B TIL that IKEA told as eye-KEY-uh, is actually pronounced as ee-KAY-uh.