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TIL that had Otis Redding not died “Sittin’ On The Dock of The Bay” would have not been released. Record producers didn’t like it, but right after the plane crash wanted to cash in on his death

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wopbM TIL about the US Navy's Marine Mammal Program which trains dolphins and sea lions to detect, locate, mark and recover objects in harbors, coastal areas, and at depth in the open sea.
b64r9 TIL the buzzing sound heard from a refrigerator is not from the motor, but from the refrigerant rapidly changing from a liquid to a gas and back again.
W9gA TIL: The Thinnest state in America this year is fatter then the fattest state was in 1995.
b69N7 TIL in 1899, the Mississippi River froze over near Cairo, Illinois, and icebergs broke loose and continued to float downriver through New Orleans before reaching the Gulf of Mexico.
wLOK7 TIL that Los Angeles's economy is bigger than every state in America with just two exceptions: New York and Texas