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TIL that some cities have a "night mayor" who is specifically in charge of developing a city's nightlife. The title originated in Amsterdam.

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OGKr1 TIL that the sports equipment company Wilson started out as part of a meatpacking company looking to find profitable uses for animal by-products.
X4VP TIL for every nine people executed in the U.S., one person on death row has been exonerated.
7raNb TIL that 20% of Finnish Americans live in Michigan or Minnesota, and that both of those states have more than twice the Finnish American population of the third (California)
aN0A TIL that the term “scot-free” was actually absorbed into English from the Norse word “skattefri”, which means “without tax”.
4XxMN TIL that relocating sea otters to SF bay could greatly increase their population and aid in conservation efforts by keeping them safer from shark bites...but getting them there means they have to swim the "shark gauntlet" near the Golden Gate.