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TIL "jadebergs" are stunning icebergs formed when seawater containing algae freezes on the bottom of a glacier.

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a8WOJ TIL Wisconsin became known as "The Badger State" because early lead miners were either too poor, too busy or both to build a home on their mining claim. So to get through the harsh Wisconsin winters, they lived inside their mines and were mocked & called badgers for living in the ground like animals
OoMWg TIL when world champion boxer Joe Louis voluntarily joined the U.S. Army in 1942 he was asked about his decision to enter the (then) racially segregated organisation, he replied: "Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them."
NBW6 TIL this is how traffic happens
bakE TIL the average member of the U.S. Congress makes $174,000 per year and its been that way since 2009
kWp1 TIL The inventor of the Super Soaker water gun was a NASA scientist who helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.