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TIL: 2% of Maryland Crabs are from Maryland

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vGpK TIL in 2003 Dave Grohl was on the top of the Billboard Modern Rock chart for 17 of 18 successive weeks, as a member of three different groups
xVErD TIL that in the 1900’s, a theater offered a prize of $1,000 to anyone that could make Sober Sue laugh attracting thousands of people who would never succeed. It later came out that Sue suffered from facial paralysis.
OoR0X TIL the surfing term "goofy foot" refers to those that surf with their right foot forward. The term originates from a 1937 Disney cartoon where Goofy surfs with his right foot forward.
7xVL TIL that it costs NASA more than $40,000 to ship the equivalent of a 2-liter bottle of water to the International Space Station which is why the systems onboard the ISS recycle 75% of water needed from the astronauts urine and sweat etc.
J1NxQ TIL: Banks in Finland stopped issuing cheques in 1993, The Netherlands in 2002 and Denmark in 2017.