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TIL that the child actor who played a young Ricky Bobby in Talledega Nights has been arrested twice- once for reckless driving; he was going 45 mph over the speed limit.

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WkLA TIL that the Cherokee were in a process of voluntary adoption of American culture, private property, agriculture and even developed a writing system and drafted a constitution inspired by the US. They fought side by side with Andrew Jackson who would later sign the Indian Removal Act
6Eo0W TIL Concrete absorbs carbon dioxide from the air.
GARk5 TIL of Fort Stevens, Oregon, the only military installation in the mainland US to be attacked during World War 2. A Japanese submarine surfaced off the coast and fired a volley of shells at the fort, which took no damage aside from the backstop of its baseball field.
R74bw TIL that the myth that Spinach is good for low Iron (it actually prevents the body from absorbing it) was caused by a decimal point error in the 1930s that declared it had 10x the Iron concentration of other vegetables (it's average at best)
VB11m TIL that a theory is not a theorem. A THEOREM is a statement of fact, that can be logically proven using a set of axioms (baseline assumptions about what’s true). A THEORY is an idea about how the world works, and cannot be proven – it can only be tested.