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TIL asbestos was commonly used for fake snow in early Hollywood, including the scene in the Wizard of Oz where it snows in the Poppy Field.

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KYbKB TIL Ocracoke has a dialect similar to Elizabethan English. Sadly it’s almost extinct.
LkKPV TIL: The First Chicken Born Outside the Egg. In 2018, Chinese scientists hatched the first chicken without an eggshell. For twenty-one days people watched the bird grow and mature directly through the transparent walls of a glass.
0wWa1 TIL that there is a basketball court above the actual supreme court room aptly named "The Highest Court in the Land"
VM8BG TIL The US convened a Coin Task Force to address a shortage in coinage. They determined there isn’t a shortage per se, instead too much of the $48.5 billion in US are not in circulation.
0p4N TIL that because of the threat of German infiltrators during the Battle of the Bulge, US troops held an American brigadier general at gunpoint for hours after he mistakenly said that the Chicago Cubs were in the American league