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TIL The Canadian Potato Museum on Prince Edward Island has the world's largest collection of potato related farming implements, features the World’s largest potato sculpture, and a restaurant that specializes in potato dishes

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R7ly7 TIL about the El Cazador shipwreck, a single ship carrying 19 tons of Spanish silver sunk in 1784, causing Spain to give up Louisiana to France. Had this ship not sunk, the Louisiana Purchase never would have happened.
a8ppb Today I learned that concrete truck drivers carry bottles of coke to prevent the concrete from settling in case of emergency
v1M4 TIL Philosophy majors outperform English majors on the GRE writing section
4k4Wb TIL that the word ‘bomb’ refers to bees, because ancients used to throw beehives as an early sort of grenade
4rMR TIL on Nov 22, 1987, two television stations in Chicago, IL, were hijacked within the course of three hours. The hijacker dressed to resemble Max Headroom, a fictional British artificial intelligence character from the mid 80’s. To this day neither the hijacker nor any accomplices have been found.