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TIL about 25 million meteors enter Earth's atmosphere every day!

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0wExv TIL Parisians used to "hang out" in the morgue situated near the Notre Dame de Paris. The macabre attraction used to lure as many as 40.000 visitors per day. There were even street vendors catering to the crowds waiting outside to take a peek at the corpses.
VMn5k TIL that banks have therapists known as “wealth psychologist”. They help ultra-wealthy clients who are unable to mentally cope with their immense wealth.
JmeV TIL Benoit B. Mandelbrot’s middle initial stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot. The father of fractal geometry has a name that is a fractal.
neWdo TIL that there's a green town in the Netherlands named Giethoorn where people either walk or take river boats as a means of transportation
AD0Ew TIL The reason you can’t find canned broccoli, unlike most other vegetables, is because broccoli disintegrates into a pulp when cooked for periods of time above 200°F, and water boils at 212°F. The canning process cooks food once before and once after its canned. Broccoli would turn to mush.