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TIL: Maine is the U.S. state closest to Africa.
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TIL the Ball corporation, famous for their mason jars, became a defense manufacturer in aerospace engineering. Their products have been used on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the James Webb Space Telescope among other projects. They no longer directly produce glass jars.
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TIL that the first bomb that fell on Berlin from the Allies in WWII didn’t kill anyone except the one and only elephant of the Berlin zoo.
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TIL that of over 7,300 U.S. state legislators, only one, a Nebraskan, is openly atheistic
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TIL that cricket was the only sport approved by Taliban during their rule of Afghanistan.
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TIL that when asked what he would say to the Columbine shooters, Marilyn Manson said; “I wouldn’t say a single word to them, I would listen to what they had to say, and that’s what no one did.”