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TIL The largest Passover Seder in the world is held annually in Nepal

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LGlV TIL the Super Bowl has required national anthem vocals to be pre-recorded since 1993 when Garth Brooks declined to pre-record and then refused to sing live until a dispute over debuting a music video during the game could be settled, resulting in a delayed kickoff.
OGQRg TIL: The King Cobra is not actually a Cobra and its name comes from it's propensity to eat other snakes, including Cobra
b6Mvj TIL that for decades, radiotherapy patients had reported phenomena such as "flashes of bright or blue light" when receiving radiation for brain cancer. This was confirmed to be Cherenkov light being generated in the fluids of the eye by researchers in 2019.
1aan7 TIL that town planning was once an Olympic event, as were several other architectural disciplines. The Olympics were to be about the arts as much as sport and contestants could compete in literature, music and several other non-sporting pursuits
OL81 TIL that under full throttle, a top fuel dragster consumes fuel at the same rate as a Boeing 747