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TIL: VLC Media Player uses a traffic cone as it’s logo because the students who had created the program had a traffic cone collection

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nejoB TIL the reason that Dippin' Dots ice cream -- made by flash freezing ice cream mix in liquid nitrogen -- is rarely sold in supermarkets is that it requires storage at temperatures below −40°F (−40°C), and supermarkets generally cannot provide such extreme cooling requirements.
0kB1 TIL that North Korea has less firepower than Thailand, and only slightly more than Ethiopia.
loWoA TIL: Charlie Chaplin was never an American citizen and was essentially exiled. During the McCarthy era, the FBI put him under surveillance, and a Mississippi congressman called for his deportation. The U.S. government then revoked his re-entry permit in 1952 as he traveled to England on vacation.
VMEYG TIL Arctic comes from the Greek word "Arktos," which means bear, so the Arctic is the land of the bears, and Antarctica is the land without bears.