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TIL that in the United States, there are at least 17 counties, 70 towns and cities, 10 squares, 33 streets, 14 schools, a hill, a park, a river, four hotels, a mountain, and two theaters named after the Marquis de Lafayette, a French General in the American Revolutionary War.

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8m6P TIL On ‘Three’s Company’ John Ritter’s scrotum is briefly visible through his boxer shorts. John Ritter told the NY Observer “I’ve requested that Nickelodeon air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t”
dXR7 TIL a $50 million titanium mesh protects an uninhabited rock in the South Pacific from erosion.
kJ5P1 TIL that the we would know if there were Megalodon because whales would have bite marks.
mmmE TIL: There’s no difference in audio quality when you compare a coat hanger to an expensive monster cable.
KOGBR TIL the spotted white porcelain anemone crab has highly unusual seafan-shaped claws which it uses to filter the water while sitting on top of an anemone by first collecting mucus from its host anemone's tentacles and then using that to attract and gather small sea creatures and plankton for food.