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TIL-There are enough restaurants in New York City to eat out every night for 54 years and never visit the same place twice.

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XoE TIL that there is a body of water in space that is large enough to give every person on earth enough water to fill the planet’s oceans.
v17mD TIL that in 1938 1800 veterans of the Civil War attended an 75th Anniversary reunion at Gettysburg, PA. The youngest was 88 years old, and the oldest claimed to be 112 years old.
l7JPA TIL that the 1960s TV series "The Prisoner" was filmed in Portmeirion, Wales. The village was mostly built in the early 20th century in the architectural style of the Italian Riviera.
Oy61 TIL in the 1970s, Japanese teenage girls developed such excessively cute handwriting that it was banned in schools due to illegibility.
kJoeB TIL that television journalist Deborah Norville was notified by an eagle-eyed TV viewer that she had a lump on her neck and advised to see a doctor. That lump was a cancerous thyroid nodule which Norville needed surgery to remove.