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TIL on Feb. 6 1897 the Indiana state legislature passed a law making Pi = 3.2

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OoQr7 TIL for the catching-a-fly-with-chopsticks scene in the "Karate Kid", they first tired regular flies but that didn't work. Then they tried refrigerated flies (they fly slower) but that didn't work. Finally they took a piece of sweater fuzz and just hung it on a string and that finally worked.
loN61 TIL that your nose can remember 50,000 scents.
BDoK TIL Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary wrote a massive screenplay in 1987 called ‘The Open Road’, which would later get split into two separate screenplays called 'True Romance’ and 'Natural Born Killers’.
9d9M TIL - There is a ghost town in northern British Columbia, Canada that was abandoned almost overnight in 1983. Everything is still there and the power is still on. The whole town was purchased by an American who wants to turn it into a resort for intellectuals.
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