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TIL Indiana legislators once tried to legally round the value of pi to 3.2

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d80Zj TIL that loofah (the kind used for scrubbing in the shower) is actually an edible vegetable.
XE9GE TIL that aspects of your personality are determined by how your brain works.. e.g. if the frontal part of your brain is more dominant on the left side you are probably the kind of person that approaches a problem, if your right side is dominant you avoid the cause of the problem
Zp5JD TIL Alert, Canada is the northernmost continuously inhabited place on Earth and 817 km from the North Pole. The Canadian Armed Forces use Alert for its strategic importance and its potential for intercepting radio signals
8aRkP TIL of the S.S. Eastland which became too top heavy and capsized killed 846 people after adding lifeboats to meet federal requirements after the Titanic sunk.
yQnKV TIL Auto-Tune actually originated as a byproduct of the mining industry