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TIL Wyoming only has 2 sets of escalators

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GYGD7 TIL a circle is used to represent a city on a map since early maps would draw small bird's-eye views of cities, and walled cities during that time were usually circular. Eventually the drawing was dropped and only the circular outline remained.
6ynX TIL: The Beatles trip to India ended badly because the Maharishi wanted the band to deposit up to 25% of their next album’s profits in his Swiss bank account as a tithe, to which Lennon replied, “Over my dead body”.
QJgyM TIL that crows use cars to crack open nuts. To avoid being run over, they drop their nuts at pedestrian crossing.
OovYX TIL the reason why the clutch, brake, and accelerator are in the same order in modern cars is because the British government needed civilian cars to be standardized in case they had to be commandeered and driven by soldiers during WW1
54nr TIL Rainbows appear as full circles when viewed from the air. They only appear as arches from the the ground because there’s no rain below the viewer.