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TIL there’s a town called Boring in Oregon, and it’s twinned with a Scottish town called Dull.

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b9oJj Recently, while looking at the vibrant lights of Hong Kong through a bus window, I noticed for the eleven-millionth time those little dots and that black band running along the edge of the glass. “What are these?” I wondered. So when I got home, I called up a major automotive glass manufacturer to find out.
GAvxg TIL that in 1979, a song titled “Ready ‘n’ Steady” appeared on a Billboard chart. However, the song was never actually released, and for years, its existence was unconfirmed. In 2016, a researcher used old copyright records to find the record, giving it its first known public exposure.
8e0EP TIL that in Japan on December 16, 1997, a particular episode of the Pokémon anime's first season induced photosensitive epileptic seizures in children across the country. Over 600 children were taken to hospitals. The incident is referred to in Japan as the "Pokémon Shock".
KO6ow TIL Isaac Newton named indigo as a part of the rainbow because he was really into the number 7.
ne6jB TIL: The Three Gorges Dam in China holds such a massive amount of water that it slows down the earth's rotation and increases a day by 0.06 microseconds