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TIL That Tianducheng, a city in China that commenced construction just prior to 2007 and has a population of over 30,000 people, was modelled on Paris France. It includes a replica Eiffel Tower, neoclassical architecture and baroque features.

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M78mm TIL a CT scan exposes you to about 100x the radiation of a chest x-ray, while a PET scan exposes you to about 250x as much.
6QZQ TIL Johnny Carson once jokingly stated “You know what’s disappearing from the supermarket shelves? Toilet paper. There’s an acute shortage of toilet paper in the United States.” resulting in people stocking up their toilet paper reserves resulting in an actual shortage in many areas.
vPZG8 TIL while most American sports are variations on older ones, volleyball, skateboarding, snowboarding and ultimate frisbee are completely American inventions
woKd6 TIL that Jesse Owens declared after the 1936 Olympic Games, that he was treated worse by the President of the USA, than he was by the German authorities.
Z8JWD TIL Police almost arrested Gary Ridgeway, The Green River killer, years earlier, in 1983. A boyfriend of a victim had seen her get into his truck before she vanished. The next day, he went with her father and found it; it belonged to Ridgeway. The tip wasn’t enough to get police to arrest him.