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TIL Chicago, nicknamed the Windy City, is named after the boastful loquacity of its politicians rather than the gusts that shoot between buildings

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v1pED TIL Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing have both been translated into Klingon. Klingon Hamlet was also performed in its entirety by the same theater company responsible for the Klingon Christmas Carol.
16B17 TIL that Kalawao County on the North Coast of Moloka'i in Hawaii is the smallest US County by area (12 sq miles of land) and 2nd smallest by population (82) after Loving County in Texas. It is a former Leper Colony that permits no new permanent residents and only allows visitors from official tours.
woOjP TIL there was a Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes in Nova Scotia 22 years before the NHL. The slap shot and goalie butterfly technique originated there. Read more - "Black Ice: The Lost History Of The Colored Hockey League Of The Maritimes 1895-1925," by historians George and Darrill Fosty
OZE6 TIL Ben Affleck dropped out of college after his creative writing teacher ridiculed an early draft of the Good Will Hunting screenplay.
YDKB TIL that Washington State has a mutual combat law that permits legal voluntary street fighting (even for self-made superheros)