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TIL: Sais are a bludgeoning weapon

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GY8QQ TIL Disney's Jungle Cruise ride was built in a lot full of orange trees. Some of them had to be removed to make way for construction and they tagged them with red and green to know which ones to keep, but the bulldozer operator was color blind and removed them all.
b68ZN TIL Pizza Hut's Big New Yorker, one of their largest pizzas, was invented and launched by former president of Nintendo Reggie Fils-Aimé
xV4pg TIL the first digital Casio watch was called the 'Casiotron' and was released in November 1974. It was the first ever digital watch to include a calendar function. Still available secondhand.
6wA8 TIL of the Mallows Bay ghost fleet, a massive group of US WWI ships intentionally sunk in the Potomac River, about an hour’s drive from Washington, DC. Along with other wrecks in the immediate area, some 200 ships dating back to the Revolutionary War can be found there, many visible from the shore.
X0DGD TIL that the "Christmas bonus" given by the UK government to disabled people has been fixed at £10 ever since it was introduced in 1972. Had it been adjusted for inflation it would be more than £130 now.