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TIL that after the extinction of the dinosaurs, there was a turtle that was the size of a car and could eat crocodiles.

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VMJPG TIL the Pacific NW is responsible for the majority of hop production in the U.S. with 99% of all production occuring in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. In 2017 Washington State alone produced 75.4% of the total hops in the country, the majority of which was grown in the Yakima Valley region.
gM6Q9 TIL that when Mike Merrill considered getting a vasectomy or moving in with his girlfriend, the choice wasn't his to make. It was instead left up to 805 people who'd purchased his life. Merrill, a private citizen, sold 11,823 shares of his life to complete strangers who now control his decisions.
5VK5P TIL that the inventor of the Pringles can, Fred Baur, was so proud of his creation that he requested to be buried in one. His family honored his request and buried part of his ashes in a Pringles can
8yL TIL the Higgs Boson was originally nicknamed “the Goddamn Particle” not “the God Particle”.
VJok TIL, after Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Adolf Hitler sent Owens a commemorative inscribed cabinet photograph of himself. Honors were not bestowed upon Jesse Owens by either President Franklin D. Roosevelt or his successor Harry S. Truman during their terms.