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TIL each King in a deck of cards is based off a historical figurre

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lJaA TIL when serving apple pie in Vermont, a “good faith” effort must be made to serve it with a glass of cold milk, at least ½ oz cheddar cheese, or a large scoop of vanilla ice cream
Davg TIL there’s a 16-foot-long, 3500 pound, female Great White shark named Mary Lee being tracked while she swims up and down the East coast.
woDJW TIL that in 1978, a man mailed himself from Australia to the UK in a wooden crate as cargo, and survived the 63-hour journey.
D1bXD TIL Kodak operated a secret nuclear reactor in the basement of their headquarters for 30 years.
KXkE TIL in the late 19th Century, a woman named Nellie Bly became an investigative journalist, had herself committed to expose poor conditions at mental institutions, traveled the world in under 80 days, married a millionaire, and became an industrialist.