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TIL, Seattle's famous Pike Place Market gum wall was steam cleaned in 2015, removing 20 years worth of chewing gum stuck on the brick.

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xVEoB TIL in 2005, a woman falsely claimed she found a finger in her food at Wendy's. The fast food chain suffered an estimated US$21 million in lost business. She later revealed, she cooked the finger at her home and then drove it to the Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, where she dropped it into the food.
7romM TIL Peter Dinklage's brother is an accomplished violinist, who performed on the original Broadway recording of Hamilton. Peter describes him as "the real performer of the family".
d8kk9 TIL The word facetious contains all five vowels in alphabetical order.
v1Xn7 TIL, Students as young as six must use a 2,500 foot rickety bamboo ladder to attend school in a Chinese Southwest Sichuan Province.
KYA16 TIL Every year Street Vision provides training in photography, documentary skills for over 30 young people living on streets. In 2005, 13 children from the beginners’ photography course graduated. All 13 found stable jobs with photo studios in the city