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TIL The mouth of the Chesapeake Bay is the site of a 35-million year old impact crater and that shaped the bay

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neXoP TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up his first barbell in 1960, when his soccer coach took his team to a local gym. At the age of 14, he chose bodybuilding over soccer as a career.
l7Y6r TIL that there is a man named Richard Weaver who multiple times has bypassed the Secret Service in order to shake Presidents' hands, claiming that it is a way of passing "notes from God" to them.
yQvgp TIL that ia bottlenose dolphin in Hawaii asked divers for help.
mxl8E TIL that the man who plays the alien in “Alien” was a 2.08m (6’10”) Nigerian named Bolaji Bandejo, and the filmmakers came across him in a bar by pure chance. While on set, a special swing had to be constructed so Bolaji could sit because the Xenomorph’s tail got in the way.
kOpKB TIL Kids aged from 2 to 11 in the U.S. see an average of 26,000 ads a year.