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TIL a 6,000-foot-long hose was discovered under the streets of Yonkers, NY, believed to transport beer during Prohibition.

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XE6y8 TIL that the definition of sport is so vague that things such as seeing who can throw a pillow the furthest are technically a sport.
j66jM TIL of Mt. Zion Cemetery, founded in 1916 in East Los Angeles, as a burial place for Eastern European Jews. Amongst the buried was Lamed Shapiro, noted Yiddish writer who died destitute. Inconclusive county records indicate no legal owner, with the last burial taking place in the late 2000s.
bJRj TIL holding a warm drink makes you perceive others you interact with to be “warmer”; i.e. friendlier and more giving.
Ev8P TIL that in a 2011 experiment where rats were presented with chocolate chips and a caged rat, test subjects would first free the caged rat, then share the food.
RPY7 TIL a Tiger’s tongue is so course, it can lick flesh down to the bone.