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TIL South Carolina has the only tea plantation in North America

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1k4X TIL: The wide variety of craft beer found in the US would not have been possible without president Carter signing H.R.1337, the “Homebrew act,” into law.
kJkvd TIL Elmer McCurdy (an outlaw) was killed in Oklahoma in 1911. His body was discovered in 1976 by a film crew member in an amusement park, where it was thought to be a wax mannequin.
GYa9G TIL why older people are more likely to develop cancer, MMA is an important factor in inducing cancer progression. The elderly's gastrointestinal dysfunction leads to vitamin B12 deficiency and insufficient vitamin B12 to react with MMA, leading to the accumulation of MMA.
Bro1y TIL the first ever piece of computer animation was the title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo
M766A TIL that in 1929, Jimmy Doolittle made the first flight using only instruments, with the cockpit windows blacked out. Proving pilots could fly “blind.” This paved the way for modern aviation. He later led the famous 1942 Doolittle Raid, the first U.S. airstrike on Japan in WWII.