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TIL Maine’s state flower is a pinecone.

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woJD6 TIL that in the 1960s Coca-Cola opened an office in Los Angeles to provide vintage Coke bottles and signs for movies.
wLD88 Today I learned that you can press the button on smoke alarms to temporarily hush them. Good for when they go off while cooking
1AXX TIL After ships reached the end of their service lives, they are sent to poorer countries’ shores to be dissembled by workers who get paid less than 3 USD a day in near-death, toxic work environments. A large ship takes up to six months to dissemble into scrap metal, and death was not uncommon.
Ypedx TIL that a survey of 1,000 Americans conducted in 2012 found that 45% of them did not want to celebrate Christmas because of financial pressures.
4X1oX TIL Rags, who became a World War I dog hero, was originally just a stray pup picked up by a couple of American soldiers in July of 1918. He carried messages from one US infantry division to the next tucked under his collar. He was buried with military honours when he died in 1936.