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TIL Converse shoes have “fuzzy soles” so they can be imported as slippers which dramatically reduces import taxes.

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VBk4k TIL that when Californians wanted to name a new city after San Francisco businessman William Ralston, he declined and said he was not worthy of the honor. So instead they named the city in honor of his modesty: Modesto, California.
dpQ8 TIL Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Jim Carrey, Mick Jagger and 1,300 other people were evacuated from a hotel because of a fire in a kitchen run by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.
eayk TIL that a Chinese law promulgated in 1981 requires that every citizen over the age of 11 plant at least one tree per year.
Ypkwr TIL Norway gets 99% of its electric power from hydropower
JYnVQ TIL Stanford University was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr., who died of typhoid fever at 15. After his 1884 death, the Stanfords determined that they would use their wealth to do something for “other people’s” children