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TIL that November 17th is officially Danny DeVito Day in New Jersey in celebration of the actor, who is an Asbury Park native

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x7A1 TIL that Ivy League admission processes with their emphasis on “well-rounded” applicants were specifically designed in the 1920’s to keep out Jews.
XDmr TIL in 1973, a Libyan passenger jet having navigational problems wandered into Israeli airspace. When 2 Israeli F-4s intercepted the jet and instructed the crew to land, they refused because of bad Libyan-Israeli relations at the time. The jet was then shot down, killing 108 people.
KOZw9 TIL hummingbirds consume between 3.14 - 7.6 calories per day and a human with similar metabolism would consume about 155,000 calories in a day.
p81Nb TIL that female dogs are more responsible for dead grass spots than males due to congealed nitrogen from squatting to pee opposed to lifting a leg and spreading it out.
8aKgb TIL Quarantine is from Italian 'quaranta giorni', meaning "forty days", used in 14th-15th-century Venetian dialect and designating the period that all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague epidemic