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TIL that Aomori City, Japan, is the snowiest city in the world.

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8ePg4 TIL about Watkin’s Tower, which was a tower almost identical to the Eiffel Tower being built in London, UK. The tower was never completed due to financial and construction problems, and was demolished. Wembley Stadium was then built on top of it.
X05jP TIL The first case of a DUI was a London Cabbie named George Smith who was swerving all over the place on September 10th, 1897 shortly after midnight. He was fined 20 schillings and told to be more careful next time.
N7eVe TIL in 1996 Tonya Harding, by then already a scandalous figure from the 1994 skating incidents, gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to an 81-year-old woman who collapsed at a bar in Portland, and was credited with saving her life.
EgVDV TIL that DJ Steve Aoki’s father is the founder of the Benihana restaurant chain
0w0Pp TIL of the St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928. Located in Angeles National Forest, the reservoir held 12 billion gallons of water. The dam failed before midnight on March 12th. A 140 ft flood wave swept debris and bodies 54 miles to the pacific ocean. Second worst loss of life in California history.