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TIL: Maine is the U.S. state closest to Africa.
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TIL that Ariel (The Little Mermaid 1989) was originally going to have blonde hair. This was changed in part due to the fact that mermaid Madison (Splash 1984) already had it.
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TIL that the Nazis funded search missions for the holy grail and other mythical objects, which were an inspiration for Indiana Jones
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TIL that during the cold war, when navy divers repairing a whale enclosure heard a human-like voice saying “out, out, out,” and got out of the water to see nobody, they found out that a beluga whale named “Noc” had learned to mimic human speech and was trying to communicate with them.
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TIL that smoking killed more people in the 20th century than both world wars combined.
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TIL Kodak discovered the US was testing atomic bombs because the corn husks used for packing material were fogging film because they had been exposed to radiation.