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TIL There are more museum in the US than McDonalds and Starbucks locations combined: 35k vs 14k+16k

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nW9lb TIL that a football player lied to his team about being in graduate school. The Baltimore Ravens thought that John Urschel was taking classes at MIT part time. The team did not know that he was a full-time PhD math student. Urschel studied from the end of Sunday games until practice on Tuesday.
RwO1 TIL when the 14 minute video of “Thriller” was first released, MTV had to run it twice an hour to meet demand
oePY TIL Kelsey Grammer’s Dad was murdered; his little sister was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by Freddie Glen; both his twin half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident; and his best friend was killed in 9/11
YppxB TIL that the same side of the moon is always facing the Earth.
R7a56 TIL that in 2015, Costco sold more than 128 million hot dogs in their food courts. That's four times the amount of hot dogs sold in all MLB ballparks combined.