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TIL that in America, 350 slices of pizza are sold every second.

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X0AGE TIL that in 2019, a stowaway on a flight destined for Heathrow Airport fell into a garden, one meter away from a sunbathing resident
bjk9 TIL that the MLB away uniforms are grey for a reason. At the turn of the century the away teams didn’t normally have access to laundry facilities on the road, thus stains were not noticeable on the darker grey uniforms as opposed to the white uniforms worn by the home team.
pDyQ TIL Philadelphia has a “consecrated hermit” who lives in a rowhouse he bought for $1.00.
Bv6K TIL that over 50 WWE wrestlers that competed in 1990s are now dead
4kK45 TIL We Might Have a Negative Leap Second. If UTC−UT1 (Figure 4) continues downward past −0.5 then we might need to have a minute with only 59 seconds for the first time ever. "We are almost as likely as not to experience a negative leap second in the next 12 years."