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TIL There was a period in the 17th Century called the Little Ice Age in which the Earth cooled causing severe winters for 70 years

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4kKrR today i learned: green olives don’t have a bright red center, those are pimento’s stuffed in them. i am way to old to have just learned this…
R50pa TIL George Lucas’s dog, an Alaskan malamute named Indiana, was often taken by the Lucases on car drives and called their ‘furry copilot’. He was an inspiration for Chewbacca and the source of Indiana Jones’ name.
6EXK8 TIL that Apple made retailers buy iMacs in "five-packs, one in each color," so that Apple wouldn't get stuck with the unpopular colors
40ww TIL 60% of Earth’s lakes are in Canada.
X0JvQ TIL traditionally, Japanese cuisine does not include salmon sushi. However, in the 1980s, Norwegian producers sought to increase sales of their abundant salmon by inventing salmon sushi.