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TIL the day after Thanksgiving is called “Brown Friday” by septic companies as it is their busiest day of the year

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e0mQJ TIL there's a town in the Netherlands that has no roads or cars and everyone travels by foot, bike or canal.
N7pZJ TiL the hamster dance is just the Robinhood song speed up
m6xR TIL that grocery cashiers in the US are seldomly given chairs to sit during work (unlike in Europe).
69XPw TIL that after John III Sobieski of Poland-Lithuania defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the Kangxi Emperor of Qing China wrote an eulogy praising the Polish king. John III Sobieski later sent a portrait of himself to Kangxi.
8a9WZ TIL that in an experiment done on mice with Alzheimer's, exposing them to lights flickering at 40hz for an hour, reduced the beta-amyloid plaques in their brains by 50%.