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TIL Idaho (a landlocked state) has an active seaport that is 465 miles (750 KM) away from the Pacific Ocean.

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woM6E TIL that there is a superstition dating back to 1920 that French presidential candidates who eat the famous Omelette de la mère Poulard at Mont-Saint-Michel win the elections. The story roughly translates to "eat the omelette, and president you will become."
9YlQ6 TIL one of the largest earthquakes in North American history occurred on January 26, 1700. It was only documented by oral history in the First Nations populations, and collaborated by a Japanese record of a tsunami around the same time.
OGxGR TIL in the ABC song, the note for G is a G
W7Xw9 TIL that the depression on the back of your hand when you stick your thumb out is called your anatomical snuffbox for its historical use in sniffing tobacco
Y7ebd TIL the hair braid once worn by Chinese men wasn't Chinese in origin. The last Chinese dynasty, the Qing, was founded by the Manchus who conquered China & imposed their traditional hairstyle on all men. Non-compliance was punished with execution. The practice faded out after the dynasty fell in 1912