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TIL Over 40 buildings in New York City are so large that they have their own zip codes.

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B5xy TIL There was a 20 year patent on mini games during loading screens that recently expired last year. This is why all loading screens aren’t interactive and usually only contain flavour or lore text.
XpDj TIL that the artificial sweetener Sucralose (Splenda) was discovered when a researcher misheard a command to “Test this chemical” as “taste this chemical”.
KeB TIL that there are two known instances of beaches being stolen
e0OKg TIL that Tatooine was planned to be a jungle planet, but was changed because of the idea that spending months filming in the jungle would make Lucas "itchy".
a8pR0 TIL King Charles is a descendant of the real life Dracula.