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TIL why the states of Arkansas and Kansas are pronounced differently.

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Eg7vW TIL that the Burmese Star Tortoise was once considered functionally extinct in the wild, but emergency breeding programs in Myanmar have brought the population back to roughly 10,000-14,000 in protected areas, even as poaching continues to threaten the species.
78rRx TIL in the original pressings of Stevie Wonder's album "The Secret Life of Plants," manufacturers sprayed the cover's inside with a perfume of flower scent (you can still faintly detect it in some copies.) Then people discovered the vinyl records were being eaten away by the scent solution.
O9MX TIL Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created by retailer Montgomery Ward for a coloring book they gave away during the holiday season.
D15ke TIL the streets of London were once paved in gold: fool's gold. Martin Frobisher shipped over a thousand tons of fool's gold from what's now Canada to London under the impression he was shipping gold ore. When it was later discovered it was no more than iron pyrite to use it for road metalling.
4kZBR TIL the Third Punic War didn’t technically end until 1985 when the mayors of Rome and Carthage signed a peace treaty for a war which hadn’t been fought in over 2,000 years.