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TIL that the state drink of Indiana is water.
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TIL during the siege of Leningrad, scientists working at the world’s largest collection of seeds protected the seeds from the threats of the cold, the hungry residents of the besieged city, rats, and their own hunger. Twenty-eight of the botanists died during the siege, protecting their collection.
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TIL of David Shaw, who upon breaking 4 diving world records at Bushman’s Hole, South Africa, discovered the body of a fellow diver from 10 years prior and died himself on a subsequent trip to retrieve the body
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TIL that the 1946 ‘Adventures of Superman’ radio show revealed the 'secret’ codes and rituals of the KKK, making it a laughingstock and drying up Klan recruitment almost overnight
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TIL that Boston has fewer people today than it did in 1910.
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TIL about Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi; a leech known as the Hippo Butt Leech who spends its life attached to the rectums of hippos