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TIL that the Coney Island style hot dog as we know it started in Michigan and not Coney Island in New York.

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nWd5d TIL dog fox hybrids have been genetically verified. They're known as dogxims.
Me9pb TIL of Whittier, Alaska: A Community Under One Roof. It's a town that features a hotel and everyone in the community lives there and shares provisions. It's very hard to get to using a map and hard to enter considering that they physically block people out after a certain time.
7rvGX TIL George Lucas helped his friend Francis Ford Coppola shoot and edit The Godfather.
yjQp TIL that in 1963, Australian authorities were alerted to an infestation of Marijuana plants growing in the Hunter Valley region. At its peak it spanned 30 square kilometers. It took 9 years to eradicate. People would walk in and out of the infestation, take weed and leave.
x6LX7 TIL about Visual Snow Syndrome, where individuals will see flickering coloured, clear, white, or black dots across their vision at all times.