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TIL that because of a constitution error, North Dakota technically never met the requirements of statehood, and until 2012 was technically never a state.

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xje0 TIL Vin Diesel is a huge Dungeons and Dragons fan, having played for more than 20 years. So much so that he even wrote the forward to Thirty Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons and Dragons.
vP4Jr TIL A monument in Kyoto contains severed noses from 38000 Koreans and 30000 Chinese from a Japanese invasion in the 1590s. No Japanese textbook mentioned it until the 80s, after a publisher resisted pressure from the ministry of education to use a softer tone and praise the invasion leader Hideyoshi
rvde TIL of the Byford Dolphin diving bell accident, where a human error caused a decompression chamber to go from 9 atmospheres of pressure to 1 in less than a second. Out of the 5 dead, one was ripped apart so violently pieces of him were found over 30 feet away.
XvO8 TIL that on July 6, 1967, the Alvin Submersible was attacked by a swordfish, which became lodged in the skin of the sub. The crew made an emergency surface, recovered the fish, and ate it for dinner.
N5Q TIL: that the modern Olympic torch relay was invented by Adolf Hitler as a Nazi propaganda tool