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TIL in 2007, the Oklahoma State Senate passed a bill declaring the watermelon as the official state vegetable.

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VvBm TIL: Killer Whales, aka Orcas, are actually not whales–they’re the largest member of the Dolphin family.
5m59 TIL RPG clerics wield maces because Bishop Odo of Bayeux was wielding one in the Bayeux Tapestry, allegedly so as not to shed blood.
kOx1g TIL That cannibalism puts you at risk for prion disease (similar to mad cow), particularly if you eat human brains and bone marrow.
KONx6 TIL of Pearl S. Buck (赛珍珠 - Sai Zhenzhu), Author and Activist that was the First American Woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and escaped death in the Nanking Incident of 1927
awr0y TIL the Vaquita porpoise is so endangered that there are only 9 left in the wild. They are the world’s most endangered marine mammal.