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TIL The area code of Brevard County, Florida is “321”. This is due to the county being the home of the Kennedy Space Center.

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e07Mn TIL that tons of wreckage from the USS Arizona, removed during Memorial construction in 1962, were dumped on the ground in Waipio Peninsula near Pearl Harbor, and remain there today.
50a9 TIL there’s an official term for Grammar Nazi’s: Prescriptivists.
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