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TIL that Arkansas Grows Rice. This is interesting becuase I always thought of rice an Asian Thing

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GYXOg TIL the bomber cockpit in Dr. Strangelove was based on a B-29 cockpit because the real B-52 bombers were off limit to the film crew. It turned out to be so accurate that Stanley Kubrick feared that his research team had done their job illegally and that they're about to be investigated by the FBI.
KO50R TIL From 1896 to 1964 Canada jailed thousands of women without trial if they were suspected of "undesirable social behavior." Such as having premarital sex or being in interracial relationships. The women were sent to reform prisons, where they were beaten and drugged to learn subservience.
oBNZY TIL Our bodies, when healthy, produce 1 to 1.5 liters of snot every day. Most of it trickles down our throat unnoticed.
8KmV TIL the death of an Australian man, found stuffed into a zipped sleeping bag, his hands bound with zip-ties, his head in a balaclava, and his mouth stuffed with a rag and tightly covered in cling film, was ruled by police to be a suicide.
QJvLe TIL, that about 86 percent of animals and/or species on earth have not been discovered yet