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TIL Homes in Israel are required by law to have a security room built to resist projectiles and chemical weapons

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9YaNG TIL James Taylor's song "Country Road" was inspired by Somerset Street in Belmont, Massachusetts, a wooded road running adjacent to the land owned by McLean Hospital where Taylor had committed himself in 1965 to receive treatment for depression
WkXxA TIL: One Third of all the Australian states are named after Queen Victoria. 2/6 Victoria & Queensland
1a9kV TIL: Orson Welles almost always wore a fake nose — he thought his own was too small and dainty and lacked character.
PVXw TIL the actor who played Sloth in The Goonies was selected first overall in 1973 NFL draft and went on to win two Super Bowls with the Oakland Raiders
oVGo TIL of the ‘Japanese Smoking Paradox’ where Japanese smokers smoke more than US/European males but have much lower lung cancer rates and nobody is entirely sure why.