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TIL the US Army is building a secret island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, and has been since 1998

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kbye TIL that the mp3 format will be almost totally patent-free on December 31, 2017
W7e1B TIL that when the Nazis threatened to execute Archbishop of Greece Damaskinos for speaking against the deportations of the Greek Jews he replied: "According to the traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church, our leaders are hanged, not shot. Please respect our traditions."
vPawR TIL actor Telly Savalas won a spelling bee in 1934 but due to an oversight, he did not receive his prize until 1991, when it was awarded to him by the Boston Harold and the school principal
DjJV TIL the common banana doesn’t have seeds because it has 3 copies of DNA. An odd number doesn’t split evenly when forming progeny, so the result is a seedless fruit. Seedless watermelon, grapes, etc also have an odd number of copies of DNA.
yR4M TIL America’s obesity rate has gone from 13 percent (1965) to 36 percent (2010)