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TIL: That Idaho has a seaport and it is considered the farthest inland port east of the West Coast.

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l7vwB TIL About the creaky voice accent which became more common in the speech of young female speakers of American English in the early 21st century; college-age Americans perceived female creaky voice as "hesitant, nonaggressive, and informal but also educated, urban-oriented, and upwardly mobile."
a8WBb TIL: This year Arizona signed a bill making Pluto the official state planet. Arizona legislators said Pluto was downgraded due to jealous Europeans. Arizona discovered it whereas all prior planets were discovered by Europeans. The bill was a bipartisan effort.
x6P7 TIL that Pablo Escobar didn’t like cocaine, or rarely drank. But he was a pothead.
j7AX TIL that at the Nuremburg trials, several Nazi leaders achieved genius-level scores on an IQ test
R5D96 TIL an Argentinian government official was once caught red-handed at 4AM hiding $7 million in cash at a convent with the aid of nuns (in their 80s)