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TIL that Hallmark Channel Christmas movies always have some snow, but not a lot, because they film in summer and fake snow costs too much. Each movie has a budget of about $2 million, which is what most TV episodes cost.

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oRKXE TIL The Saint-Bélec slab (2150–1600 BCE) is a stone artefact from Brittany thought to be the earliest map of any known territory. The slab was discovered in 1900 and then forgotten for more than a century in the cellar at the Château de Kernuz, where it was rediscovered in 2014.
78gDx TIL about flood geology, the attempt to correlate real landscape features and the presence of coal or oil with the Biblical Great Flood
NLp1 TIL that in 2003 the computer term “Master/slave” was banned for being racially offensive by the Los Angeles County purchasing department
VVm4 TIL that creator of LSD lived up to 102.
lowRK TIL the first 2 black senators in the US, who served in the 1870s, were both from the Deep South state of Mississippi. Mississippi also had a black Speaker of the House at this time.