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TIL Lebron James and Steph Curry were coincidentally born at the same hospital in Akron, Ohio

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DYYr TIL Traditional cheese makers were so threatened by artificial cheese production that they tried to name it “Embalmed Cheese” to decrease sales. The US government had to step in, and the name was formally made “Processed Cheese” which we still use today.
LknYr TIL Naked Mole Rats speak in dialects unique to their colonies and will kill intruders with the wrong dialect
LkYpm TIL that four people were targets for assassination the night that Lincoln was killed. John Wilkes Booth was the only one who succeeded.
epkmJ TIL: there is a lake in Uttarakhand (India) called Roopkund Lake or the "Skeleton Lake" which has he skeletal remains of an estimated 600-800 people, some of them date back to around 1,200 years.
epRl6 TIL that the Yellowstone Park "Zone of Death" is a legal loophole in a small part of Yellowstone Park. A man was tried for an elk's murder in the Idaho section. The Sixth Amendment guarantees a fair trial by a jury in the area, but no jury can be assembled as nobody lives there, making crimes legal