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TIL that 70 percent of all Indian motel owners – or a third of all motel owners in America – are named Patel

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kJdaE TIL 2100, 2200 and 2300 will NOT be a leap years, due to the fact that if a year is divisible by 100, but not 400, the year is skipped as a leap year, to counteract that a year is not actually 365.25 days long, but about 365.2422 instead, meaning the rule makes up for 3 days every 400 years.
KOGrE TIL of the infamous "Chicken Incident", when a chicken made its way on the stage of an Alice Cooper gig. Cooper, thinking a chicken would fly, picked it up and proceeded to throw it onto the crowd. It landed on the first few rows occupied by wheelchair users, who then teared the chicken to pieces.
4X0do TIL Mortal Kombat 11 developers have been diagnosed with PTSD after long time exposure to violent contents
grWrA TIL that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA.
6Vxw TIL that there is video footage of the iconic image of Kim Phuc getting napalmed