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TIL UPS gets 15,000 parking tickets in New York a month

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d8kgE TIL that between the ages of 10 and 14, girls are actually taller, stronger, and heavier than boys on average.
neLyr TIL That the National Anthem of Honduras has a whole stanza dedicated to France
nWXlP TIL that the UK Tax code has over 10 million words and is about 12 times the length of the Complete Works of Shakespeare (880,000 words) or nine times the length of all the Harry Potter books combined (1.1 million words).
OoanY TIL in 1989 a US student on spring break in Mexico was kidnapped and used as a human sacrifice by a drug cartel / cult. This is the inspiration for the 2007 movie Borderland.
wod0P TIL some of St. Nicholas/Santa Claus’s bones were once gifted to a New York City church by Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia. Both the church and the bones were destroyed on 9/11.