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TIL the Toronto Public Library is the busiest urban public library system in the world

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xnrk TIL in 1903, dozens were killed in a Chicago theater fire. The mayor, owner, and building commissioner were all indicted; however, the only person to serve prison time was a tavern owner who looted the corpses of the victims.
WJ6B TIL in 2008 Lamborghini gave the Italian state police the world’s fastest police car, a Gallardo LP560-4, which was equipped with a video surveillance camera, gun racks, GPS, organ transplant cooler (in the luggage compartment) and defibrillator. It was crashed the following year.
W0y9 TIL there is a banned Pepsi and Doritos commercial that used Doritos as communion wafers and Pepsi as sacramental wine
9Mjp TIL that asparagus can grow up to 7" in a day, and a farmer can harvest spears more than once a day from the same plant.
5VAL9 TIL the BBC lost the sole production of the Queen's Royal Christmas Message and had to pay closely to 2.5 million pounds in restitution and donations due to the famous Diana interview, which was obtained under "questionable means".