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TIL At mile 101 of the Alaska Highway is a community named Wonowon, formerly known as Blueberrry. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL 'Monkey', a puppet character in Britain. It's a rare mascot that outlived the product (digital TV) it promoted, and reused for totally different product (tea). (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that until 1973, it was legal in Texas for a husband to kill someone caught having sex with his wife, "provided that the killing takes place before the parties to the act have separated". (www.sll.texas.gov)

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TIL that Gerald Ford was an assistant coach at Yale and attended law school in the off-season. (mgoblue.com)

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TIL that male dolphins are sexually attracted to female humans... this is so disturbing lol (www.nydailynews.com)

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TIL "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" was the first all-digital live action feature. This means that no film was used in the creation of it until film copies had to be made for theaters. (postinthewoods.com)

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TIL Snakes Fart (youtu.be)

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TIL that interpretations of the film The Shining as referencing treatment of Native Americans, were made as early as 1987 in an essay in The Washington Post. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL That a small cloud (1 Cubic Kilometer) weighs about 1.1 million lbs! (www.usgs.gov)

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TIL the biggest geomagnetic storm in history caused fires in telegraph stations (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that Nabokov saw each letter as a color. It's called grapheme-color synesthesia (aeon.co)

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TIL Bernie Madoff, who ran a $50B ponzi scheme, may not have made a single trade with his investment fund. (www.reuters.com)

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TIL that Timur, the Turko-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia, reportedly caused the deaths of 17 million people, amounting to about 5% of the world population (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Box turtles evolved from water to land, then back to the water, then back to the land again (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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TIL of The Electrical Experimenter, a popular science magazine. Although it was only published between 1913 and 1920. It nevertheless boasted Nikola Tesla as a contributing writer. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that Brazil has the most native deer species in the Americas. There are eight of them, divided into four genus: White-tailed Deer, Pampas Deer, Marsh Deer, and brockets. (tudosobreanimais.com.br)

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Today I learned that astronauts heading to the International Space Station (ISS) must learn Russian as a second language. (www.britannica.com)

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TIL that the Radio City Rockettes didn’t allow Black dancers in until 1987, claiming that their skin tone would distract from the group’s consistent look. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL That there is a numeric question trick that can almost guarantee the response to be "carrot" after a few questions, regardless of culture. (www.bbc.com)

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TIL the concept of "checkmate" originates from the Persian phrase "Shāh Māt," meaning "the king is helpless" or "the king is defeated." (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL The last incarnation of the Fiat 500 (1972—1975) was the R model ... the fuel gauge was omitted and only the low fuel indicator remained. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL of Mi'kmaw Hieroglyphs, a Native North American writing system, whose native name (Gomgwejui'gasit) translate as 'Suckerfish script' (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Helium was detected on the sun before it was detected on Earth. That's why it was named for Helios, the Greek god of the sun. (blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk)

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TIL: Nigeria’s federal medical authority mantains a public list of registered quacks. (mdcn.gov.ng)

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TIL since 1850, more than 5,000 individuals have attempted to cross Niagara Falls, either intentionally (as stunts or suicide attempts) or accidentally. Of these, only 16 have survived. (www.wikipedia.org)

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