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TIL Joseph Heller, author of Catch 22, wouldn’t begin a story without envisioning both an opening and closing line.

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DQ5ge TIL: When Pokémon was first released in the U.S. in 1998, the Mayor of Topeka, Kansas officially renamed the city to "ToPikachu". This was repeated by the Mayor in 2018 with the release of the "Pokemon: Let's Go" games.
QNPj6 TIL about the Zebra Murders, a string of racially motivated murders in the early 1970s in California
5V1PP TIL That the New York City Metropolitan Area is larger than the country of Equatorial Guinea. The New York Metropolitan Area has a surface area of approximately 13,318 square miles, and Equatorial Guinea has a surface area of 10,831 square miles.
aQaM TIL when JJ Abrams chose to have John Williams score The Force Awakens, he gave his frequent composer/collaborator Michael Giacchino a role as stormtrooper FN-3181 in the raid on Jakku as an apology.
QWad TIL in 2007 Joshua Bell pretended to be a street violinist and everyone ignored him. Just two days earlier he played in a sold out theater with each seat costing $100. The violin he used on the street was worth $3.5 Million dollars.