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TIL Vermont has a city called Newport and town called Newport right next to each other.

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n88r TIL that polar bears sometimes inter-breed with grizzly bears creating a hybrid bear known as a pizzly bear, a prizzly bear, or a grolar bear
j66aE TIL James Caan improvised scenes while filming The Godfather. He broke the FBI character's camera after getting genuinely heated. From his upbringing, he instinctively pulled out money to pay for the damages and walked away.
698aQ TIL the ancient Greek alphabet -- and by implication today's English alphabet -- can be traced back to a single vote held in Athens in 403 BC on whether to adapt the "Ionic Alphabet", the first of the "Euclidean" alphabets. It supposedly took them one year to implement the metric change.
Oo5be TIL that during prodution of Toy Story 2, Pixar accidentaly deleted the entire movie from it's servers. The movie was saved by an employee, a new mother, who worked from home and had the data saved on her personal computer.
ja1j TIL: one of the reasons America has Electoral College is because James Madison was worried about “tyranny of the majority”, which involves a scenario in which a majority places its own interests above those of a minority group.