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TIL Alaska has over 3,000,000 lakes

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kONdB TIL in 1940 the WPA and NYC Tax Department took a picture of nearly every building in the five boroughs of NYC, these were digitized by the NYC Municipal Archives in 2018, collated, and geo-tagged to create a comprehensive streetview of 1940s NYC.
5VVx9 TIL that the spellings "per cent" and "percent" are both correct, the difference is that "per cent" is used mainly in Britain and Canada, whereas "percent" is most preferred in the US
ogAo TIL a factory worker saved 34 lives from the 9-story Rana Plaza collapse. Against all warnings, he climbed inside the rubble to pull people to safety. When a doctor was too afraid to go in to amputate the limbs of some that were trapped, the worker took a knife and did it himself to save them.
78oGO TIL that the quartet/quintet "The Drifters" had 60 members.
e0Olb TIL: Bleach solution needs to be remade daily to retain effectiveness, even at a 1:9 ratio.