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TIL North Dakota only has one waterfall in the whole state.

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b680a TIL about “ telephoning for catfish” Southern fishers in the 1950s jury-rigged components of old crank-style telephones to send an electric current through the water and stun fish, and it only works on fish with no scales, like catfish.
9YgLm TIL Abraham Lincoln's assassination helped to popularize travel by train due to the amount of press and exposure Lincoln's funeral train received. Up until then, most Americans had never seen a passenger train.
o1Go TIL that for the release of Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, 9,000 FedEx trucks and 100 airplanes were used with no purpose than to deliver the book.
W74RN TIL that, following WW2, a German engineering company - JA Topf & Sons - continued in business under different names until 1996. JA Topf & Sons designed and built gas chambers and crematoria ovens for Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau and other concentration camps.
v1YBB TIL that babies under the age of 1 year should not eat honey because their gut is not developed enough to stop certain harmful bacteria like Clostridium botulinum from infecting the body