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TIL Maine’s state flower is a pinecone.

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jNlPp TIL Susan Travers, the only woman ever to serve in the French Foreign Legion, waited until she was 91 to write her autobiography so everyone mentioned had already died
GVeJ TIL Tigers, leopards, and jaguars love Calvin Klein’s Obsession for Men. The scent is used to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness.
ANGpo TIL tourists often get lost on their way to visit Auschwitz in Poland, because the name is absent from both the nearby bus stop and train station.
XEVBj TIL: Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away.
69vyl TIL Californians wanted to name a new city after San Francisco businessman William Ralston. However, he declined the honor, stating that he was not worthy of it. As a result, they named the city Modesto, California, in honor of his modesty.