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TIL helmets weren't required in the NHL until 1979.

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9mGQ TIL in 2007, the House of Representatives of Oklahoma declared the watermelon, a fruit, their state vegetable.
kgn1 TIL weevil eggs are in most grains that we buy, such as flour, cereal, or rice. So when you see weevils inside sealed bags, they didn’t “get in”. They were already there.
NXd48 TIL Flat adverbs, where the adjective and adverb have the same form, used to be much more common in the 18th century until a bunch of grammarians decided adverbs must end in -ly. Examples of surviving flat adverbial usage today include “sit tight” and “go slow”.
x6v9B TIL a 𐕣 (inverted cross or upside down cross) symbol is also called the Cross of Saint Peter aka The Petrine Cross and is interconnected with the Vatican’s pope papacy prophecy from the Origen of Alexandria found in the "Martyrdom of Peter" dating from circa 200 A.D.
9w8kM TIL that in the 1920s a German architect had a plan to drain the Mediterranean sea . The plan called for building a gargantuan dam across the straits of Gibraltar . if successful, this new land connecting Europe and Africa together would have been called Atlantropa .