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TIL Parts of New York City have a vacuum-driven garbage-collection system that literally sucks trash through pipes under the streets to a central disposal location–and has had it for 35 years.

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LPmZ TIL That China only allows 34 non-Chinese films a year to be shown in their theatres
AD6Ko TIL in 1998 Charlie Brooker caused a magazine to be pulled from the shelves for writing an article depicting children taking out their violent impulses on animals in the fictional 'Helmut Werstler's Cruelty Zoo'
kOeY7 TIL the show EastEnders is so popular in Britain, they occasionally have to borrow power from France because so many people wait to put the kettle on for tea until after the show ends. (Estimated 1.5-1.75 million kettles)
yjaw TIL Singapore has the world’s highest percentage of millionaires, with one out of every six households having at least $1,000,000 US dollars in disposable wealth.
OyBa TIL There’s a 9 year old boy in the Philippines who started his own no-kill, non-profit animal shelter - the first of its kind on his island of Mindanao.