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TIL the largest man-made beach is 26 miles long.

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e0yw5 TIL that the Canadian province of Alberta has no rats, and it is even illegal to own pet rats without a permit.
Pm8G TIL Jonah Hill did not actually eat a goldfish during “The Wolf of Wall Street.” PETA had three “goldfish handlers” on set who ensured the goldfish’s safety.
Y7epW TIL that the term 'Wiki' was coined in 1995 by Ward Cunningham after the Wiki Wiki Shuttle bus in Hawaii. Wiki means 'quick' in Hawai'ian.
QB16 TIL Engineers in Canada receive an Iron Ring to to remind them to have humility. It is in memory of a bridge that collapsed twice due to incorrect calculations involving iron.
VoY0 TIL in 1984 an contestant made it onto the game show Press Your Luck. He discovered using his stop-motion VCR that the presumed random patterns of the game board were not random and memorized the sequences. On the game he was on, he won 45 consecutive spins. winning $110,237 in cash & prizes.