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TIL There is a city called Kanorado that sits on the state line between Kansas and Colorado

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YjNZ TIL Guy Fieri Officiated 101 Same-Sex Weddings in a Single Weekend
p8KWN TIL that Oktoberfest often has the majority of its days in September because the festival is usually 16 days long and its last day is traditionally on the 1st Sunday in October. In years where that day falls before October 3rd, it is extended to commemorate German Unity Day.
6oYJ TIL Evangeline Lilly was promised there would be no love triangle in The Hobbit, her one stipulation for accepting the role. A year later the actors were called back for reshoots, with a love triangle added in.
xV7wD TIL JRR Tolkien (Author of the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings) would hand-write, illustrate, envelop, seal, stamp letters from "Father Christmas" to each of his children each year.
x6PX7 TIL of incense clocks that tell time with fire. They were used in China since at least 6 AD. Some even could trigger alarms by burning through threads holding metal balls and causing them to fall, or used scented chips so you could tell time with a sniff