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TIL Montreal has musical swing sets downtown. When in motion, they produce sounds. If you can sync all 3 swings, it creates a song.

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Bwmd TIL Milton Hershey being unable to have children founded the Milton Hershey School for orphans in 1909. He donated 30% of all future Hershey profits. It now has 7 billion in assets, and continues to serve orphans in financial need. Milton also prohibited it’s use in any advertising.
6EXP8 TIL that in Switzerland it's illegal to have just one guinea pig because they get too lonely and need a friend.
9YwgM TIL: Pikachu is more recognizable than Mickey Mouse
56Qn TIL a 3rd grade teacher ran an experiment with her class after the assassination of Martin Luther King where she got kids to discriminate against each other on the basis of eye color
8Q5P TIL that in the DC Universe, Gotham City is located in New Jersey and Metropolis is in Deleware