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TIL wild blueberry farming in Maine traditionally involved burning the fields every year, a technique learned from the Passamaquoddy tribe, since most of the plant mass is underground

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X0rj8 TIL people didn’t know TNT was explosive for 28 years and used it as yellow dye instead
xV9e5 TIL that Peter Billingsley, the actor who played Ralphie in A Christmas Story, was a young NASA ambassador who witnessed the Challenger explosion firsthand.
67YZ TIL According to the first item on its list of ingredients, Goldfish snack crackers are made with “smiles.”
DlPe TIL that there are hidden wine cellars that run beneath the expanse of the Brooklyn Bridge. Though no longer in use, they were created to help supplement the building costs as merchants would pay to store expensive bottles in the always cool vaults.
R5bEl TIL: Sammy Hagar & Van Halen had a falling out while writing music for the film “Twister” Sammy insisted on writing a tornado themed song despite the director telling him “Do not write about tornadoes”