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TIL That Saint Petersburg Fl set the world record for most consecutive days of sunshine with 768, from 1967-1969.

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p8Ay4 TIL Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle is based on a fantasy novel written by British novelist Diana Wynne Jones in 1986
8aENV TIL Al Capone is responsible for the expiry date on milk.
GYPr7 TIL: That the children of Princess Anne, the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, carry no Royal Titles. They are still in the Royal line of succession but have no peerage titles because thier father was common born and refused a title upon marriage into the Royal Family.
mxwdp TIL children in Singapore are required to learn English along with the language of their registered ethnicity: Mandarin, Malay or Tamil
EKkw TIL that the all-American tumbleweed of the Wild Wild West is actually an invasive Russian weed brought over by immigrants in the 1870’s