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TIL there are tilted windows in Vermont called “witch windows”. The name appears to come from a superstition that witches cannot fly their broomsticks through the tilted windows.

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xV80B TIL of Bobby Driscoll, famous Disney child actor in the 1940s and 50s (including the voice of Peter Pan), who died penniless and alone at age 31 in an abandoned NYC building. When his body went unclaimed, he was buried in an unmarked grave.
aw9X0 TIL during a speech in Poland, President Jimmy Carter’s interpreter told the Polish people he wanted “to grasp at Poland’s private parts” when he meant he was “happy to be in Poland” and that he was “never returning to the United States” when he meant that he’d “just left the United States.”
YvpG TIL - In 2004 and 2007, the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) survey found that Comcast had the worst customer satisfaction rating of any company or government agency in the country, including the Internal Revenue Service.
yrKM TIL No violent crimes were reported in New York City on November 28, 2012, possibly for the first time ever. Not a single person was murdered, shot, slashed, or stabbed until 11:20 am the next day. Officials couldn’t remember it ever happening before.
p8YrQ TIL The second largest Air Force in the world is the US Navy