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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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oV7E TIL Bryers Ice Cream, the company that prided itself on using only few, all natural ingredients had to change their labels to read “Frozen Dairy Dessert” because based on the ingredients they couldn’t legally sell their product as ice cream.
LkXld TIL of Ruthie Tompson, one of the original animators for Disney's Snow White, is still alive at age 107. She's the seventh oldest person in the world.
xbZ0 TIL that in one year, a man made fourteen successive trades to turn his red paperclip into a house.
kO1g7 TIL that Costa Rica does not have traditional street addresses, but instead use distances from landmarks to guide taxis, guests, mail etc.
4kBgg TIL China has a theme park "The Kingdom of the Little People" that is run by Dwarfs! Established in 2009, the plan was to create a secure workplace for people with dwarfism, often marginalized in China's superstitious society.