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TIL that Peterborough, ON, Canada has the highest hydraulic liftlock in the world AND was the first city in Canada to use electric streetlights

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OGL8L TIL of the Sul Ross Desk, an attraction outside the college town of Alpine, Texas that is a teachers desk left abandoned by a group of Sul Ross State students on top of a mountain in 1979.
6ELwm TIL that that from 1986-1993, Christmas M&Ms had imprinted images of candles, bells, and pine trees, while Easter M&Ms had images of bunnies, chicks, and eggs! Then they were all replaced by the simple M (except for special orders which came along later)
Me8AK TIL Tom Kenny was laughing so much during the recording of the Spongebob episode 'Sailor Mouth' that they had to record him while he lay on the floor of the sound booth.
9wMe6 TIL "steep learning curve" is used incorrectly, it actually means something is easy to learn. Something hard to learn has a flat learning curve
8ePXX TIL manuscripts maintained by double cloisters where monks and nuns allied together and physically located next to each other had more repairs done to parchment (skin) tears and holes than standalone cloisters. Some repairs used the parchment holes as a starting point for illustrations