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TIL it is illegal to release balloons in the state of Florida

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d8WdK TIL about the Doomsday Algorithm - a method to mentally calculate the day of the week given any date based on the fact that 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12 all occur on the same day of the week regardless of the year.
a8WV9 TIL that Orson Welles met with Walt Disney about making an animated adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince together. Welles' pitch captivated Disney's animators so much that Walt became indignant. He declared to an associate, "There is not room on this lot for two geniuses!"
691JX TIL that the early Hardy Boys books were so dark and cynical in tone, that they received an official rebuke from the publisher.
4kB6N TIL the Persian Gulf was once a very fertile and inhabited valley having flooded during the start of recorded history during the time of the Sumerians
neR6W TIL Paganism was still practiced in parts of Ireland as late as the 1850s. The idol , Naomhóg was worshiped in the Inishkea Islands and was credited with power over weather, health and potatoes. It was allegedly thrown into the sea by a catholic priest called ‘Big Paddy’ O’Reilly in the 1890’s.