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TIL that surfers and other water-sport athletes commonly develop a bony outgrowth (exostosis) in their ear canals that requires surgery

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b95k4 TIL in addition to the more familiar AMBER Alert, Texas has two additional codes: CLEAR Alerts for abducted adults between 18-64 and Camo Alerts for missing active duty military or veterans with mental illness and/or injuries.
X0JDX TIL in the mid-1980s there was a Nerds cereal and that the box had two separate compartments and each compartment had its own flavor. It also came with a mail-in offer for a two-sided Nerds bowl that had a "Nerd Gate" that when lifted would allow milk on one side of the bowl to flow into the other.
n9oY TIL that Walt Disney would often visit Disneyland incognito; wearing old clothes and a straw farmer’s hat, he would sit on rides and time them to make sure operators didn’t rush Disneyland visitors.
WkBwX TIL in 1982, GM was toying with the idea of developing a car with a turbine engine that ran on coal dust due to the concern over rising oil prices.
l7Ar TIL- Domino’s Pizza and Little Caesars Pizza, two of the nation’s biggest pizza chains, were founded 18 miles apart and still maintain their corporate capitals less than 50 miles apart