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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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Zp08B TIL in 1967, The Doors scored their first #1 hit with "Light My Fire." Elektra Records’ founder Jac Holzman offered each member a gift; Jim Morrison picked a 1967 Ford Mustang, inspired by his hairstylist Jay Sebring. In 1969, Morrison mysteriously lost the Mustang, and its fate remains a mystery.
jv5N TIL that after a dueling, it’s common for two male giraffes to have sex with eachother. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling
p8gB8 TIL of tree man syndrome, a rare gene mutation that makes people highly susceptible to HPV and causes severe deformity.
BkVL TIL of Y2k38, or the Year 2038 Problem, when a signed 32-bit integer will no longer be large enough to store the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch.
PY7vL TIL: Back in 2009 FedEx signed a contract with USPS to accept their mail. It's called Smartpost