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TIL Maine has more coastline than California.

Read more coast.noaa.gov

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oBPoK [TIL] "Slow movement culture" where the group embraces "Slow food" instead of "fast food", "Slow reading" instead of "fast reading" etc. The whole idea is to slow down and notice the nuances and appreciate the details.
4knkw TIL that horseshoe crabs have blue blood that detects pathogens, and they're being hunted for it to extinction!
wMa7 TIL of John Joe Gray, who has been wanted by Texas police since January 2000, but they’re not willing to fight his religious separatist group in order to arrest him
N7EQP TIL About the Paternoster; a largely obsolete style of elevator that has no doors and is continuously in motion.
LQ5Nv TIL in the 1970s, musician Gordon Sumner of Wallsend, England, had a habit of wearing a black and yellow jumper with hooped stripes when playing with a jazz band in northern England. The bandleader thought it made him look like a bee or a wasp, prompting the nickname "Sting".