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TIL: Norteño Mexican music is highly influenced by polka music

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Zn8G TIL on the stroke of midnight on Jan 1, 1900, the SS Warrimoo intentionally crossed the international date line exactly at the equator. This put the vessel in two different seasons and two different centuries at the same time.
GAKoQ TIL That there’s an ongoing experiment that set out to prove pitch tar is liquid by having it drip for years. It has dripped 9 times since it started in 1927 and the last drop to completely fall did so in 2000
x6ye1 TIL that America's first war was to prevent African pirates from taking Americans and Europeans as slaves.
l7oxG TIL the Filair Let plane crash: Caused by an escaped juvenile crocodile that had been smuggled in a cabin bag. The passengers were so frightened they all ran away from the croc to the front of the cabin, altering the weight distribution making the plane uncontrollable. All but 1 person on board died
X54r TIL in 1979 when New York City made it illegal to carry open containers of alcohol in public, the law was pitched to only target the anti-social homeless. A city councilman supporting the law: “We do not recklessly expect the police to give a summons to a Con Ed worker having a beer with his lunch”.