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TIL that Garth Brooks had an emo alter ego in 1999 called Chris Gaines

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JYn68 TIL that the Michelin stars restaurants receive are based off of whether you would travel a long distance to eat there, and that it started as a marketing ploy by Michelin tires in the 1900's
KO9M6 TIL the reason Phoenix can exist in the middle of the desert is because in 1868 Jack Swilling discovered the ruins of a 27,000 sqmi canal system built by the Hohokam. He restarted the canals and today that infrastructure, with modern expansions, waters the city of over a million in the hot desert.
LQXed TIL that the inventor of chiropractic said the idea came to him during a seance, from the ghost of a doctor who had died 50 years earlier.
7r6GX TIL in 2019 the wealth per adult in North America was $417,694.
nW5G7 TIL that in 2018, Surabaya, Indonesia, allowed residents to pay for bus rides with plastic waste instead of cash. This initiative aims to cut down plastic trash and boost public transport use, helping reduce road congestion. Plastic waste can cover a two-hour bus trip.