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TIL Colorado is actually a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon, meaning it has 697 sides.

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Bg0yL TIL that two billionaires each married the same woman. Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos were rival Greek shipping tycoons who married a total of seven times. Onassis first married Athina Livanos, then Jacqueline Kennedy (JFK's widow); Athina later became one of Niarchos's five wives.
kO987 TIL The International Federation of Robotics has Japanese robot manufacturers delivering over half of the world's robots, 52% of the total global supply.
Lkadp TIL on July 9, 1962 , a nuclear bomb called "Starfish Prime" was successfully detonated in outer space as a part of the program ‘Operation Fishbowl" following two failures that resulted in radioactive material falling to earth from 35,000 feet.
epAnD TIL that Aomori City, Japan, is the snowiest city in the world.
0o0p TIL the screenplay for Pirates of the Caribbean was finished in the 1990s. Steven Spielberg stumbled upon it and campaigned to direct the film with Robin Williams starring as Jack Sparrow