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TIL South Carolina is the only state where all area codes start with an 8

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7BgP TIL that in 1989, Disney forced three daycare centers to remove a mural of Mickey, Donald and Goofy under threat of legal action
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a866b TIL Freddie Mercury’s introductory scatting vocal on "Under Pressure" was improvised during an experiment suggested by David Bowie, as Brian May recalls it: "David said, 'Okay, let’s each of us go in the vocal booth and sing how we think the melody should go and we’ll compile a vocal out of that.'"
5VrbQ TIL about the Naki Sumo Crying Baby Festival, where babies compete to see who cries first. In Japanese tradition, a crying baby is a sign of good health and luck
6Bx8 TIL in 1992 29,000 “bath toys” fell off a container ship near the coast of Alaska. Since then the yellow duckies have been washing up in places such as Scotland, Japan, Maine and the Arctic.