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TIL California's state rock is composed of asbestos (Bonus/Also TIL - states have official rocks??)

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Bgr5D TIL a commercial for the Cocoa Pebbles cereal led Hulk Hogan to sue the company. The commercial had a character named Hulk Boulder fighting Flinstones characters. He claimed it damaged his reputation and used his image. Hogan and the company came to an agreement to never show the ad again.
O997 TIL that MIT students can get a course credit for surfing Reddit - while doing research and analysis on the site and its community.
vwXr TIL that a drunk North Korean man passed out on a wooden board to find himself in South Korea the next day as a flood washed him and the board to an island controlled by South Korea.
p8vgA TIL Jessie Roberta Cowan (aka Rita), from Kirkintilloch, Scotland, is known as the Mother of Japanese Whisky. She married Masataka Taketsuru, who had come to Scotland to study Chemistry and the art of whisky-making, and she followed him back to Japan, where she provided moral and financial support.
x6VB0 TIL that a small part of southern Florida is the only place in the world where crocodiles and alligators coexist.