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TIL Alligators Are Native to Oklahoma

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6d6Z TIL Astronomers discovered a planet which rains glass sideways, giving it a blue hue.
9wWb6 TIL that after moving from New York to Georgia, a boy wore a "Hempstead NY 516" shirt to his new school. Believing that the shirt was a marijuana reference, the school pulled him out of class until he persuaded officials to check online for proof of his former hometown's existence.
rROBo TIL The term slush fund was originally a nautical term: the slush was the fat or grease skimmed from the top of the cauldron when boiling salted meat. Ship officers would sell the fat to tallow makers, with the resulting proceeds kept as a slush fund for making small purchases for the ship's crew.
lQ5V TIL the word “checkmate” derives from the Persian phrase “Shah Met” which means “the King is Dead.”
pYwjN TIL when it was discovered in 1963 that the Winchester manuscript of Le Morte d'Arthur was indeed Thomas Malory's, John Steinbeck caught wind of it and decided to translate it into modern English. Ultimately he abandoned the project, but what remained was published after his death.