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TIL Maine has more coastline than California.

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e0JWJ TIL actor Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap, Star Trek) had a clause in his contract requiring that he be home for dinner by six every night, for the sake of not being an absentee father or husband.
wLJW6 TIL of Vasilisa Kozhina, a Russian woman who lead a guerilla regiment of women and teenagers to slaughter "hundreds of the French" in the Patriotic War of 1812. She has two streets, a village and a train station named after her, plus a stamp and a mention in War and Peace.
LkWeP TIL of a Jewish ballerina, Franceska Mann, who while stripping to go into the gas chambers, shot a German officer and wounded another.
Ooa7Y TIL when the inventors of Silly String were trying to sell their idea to Wham-O, one of them sprayed the can all over the person who was meeting with them and all over their office. They were asked to leave, however, a day later received a telegram asking them to send 24 cans for a test market.
QNg8E TIL George Washington's statue in London has soil from Virginia under it because Washington said in 1799 "I shall never step on English soil again"