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TIL the official state vegetable of Oklahoma is watermelon.

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pYlG TIL actor James Cromwel was vegetarian and actually switched to an even stricter (vegan) diet when he played “Farmer Hoggett” in the movie Babe (1995).
EV6o TIL That Tesla tried to name their 3rd generation vehicle the Model E, so that their model line spelt S E X.
e0WVk TIL children from countries exposed to parasitic worms are less likely to be diagnosed with allergies
vPpw4 TIL that Albert Einstein was not awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on special relativity and energy mass equivalence (which led to the famous equation E=mc^2) but rather for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
6jrX TIL German Chocolate Cake was made by a Englishman Named German.