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TIL the official state vegetable of Oklahoma is watermelon.

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VQdk TIL that elite US soldiers actually climbed 95 foot cliffs under Point Du Hoc to capture and destroy key German strongholds during the D-Day assault June 6, 1944. They then held their position for two days suffering 65% casualties.
eEO4 TIL that the shredded remains of birds that get sucked into jet turbines is called “snarge”.
e0vv6 TIL The first recorded autopsy was performed in 44 B.C. on Julius Caesar to determine which of the 23 stab wounds he received had killed him. (It was a chest wound that severed his aorta.)
R5lD8 TIL Philip K. Dick — who wrote the novels/stories behind Minority Report, The Man in the High Castle, Total Recall, etc. — died just 4 months before the release of Blade Runner.
9YJeM TIL the shark in Jaws was named Bruce, after Spielberg’s lawyer