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TIL Illinois had a special edition license plate for Hurricane Katrina, but Louisiana did not

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wLNb6 TIL using “traditional” swear words increases pain tolerance by 33%
nWe7B TIL the Sun is not a mass of incandescent Gas, it’s a miasma of incandescent Plasma
XENar TIL of Project Azorian, a secret CIA project in the 1970s fronted by eccentric businessman Howard Hughes. The CIA spent the equivalent of $4 billion to make a ship that could recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine. It nearly succeeded, but 2/3rds of the vessel broke away during retrieval.
Oo4n7 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't allowed to dub his own role in Terminator in German, as his accent is considered very rural by German/Austrian standards and it would be too ridiculous to have a death machine from the future come back in time and sound like a hillbilly.
m1r6x TIL about Lyrall's Wren, a flightless songbird hunted to extinction by lighthouse keeper Lyrall's pet cat