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TIL Geologists consider the Hudson River Valley to be a Fjord.

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R5V18 TIL up until the late '80s, gin rummy tournaments flourished, drawing as many as 400 competitors. Even nongamblers have heard of the World Series of Poker, but few outside the gin rummy community know annual gin tournaments currently award hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money.
E14L0 TIL the Arkansas School for the Deaf's mascot is the Leopard, making them the Deaf Leopards.
ADbWB TIL Limewire developed a subscription-based music-streaming service called ‘Grapevine,’ but industry execs wouldn’t accept the inevitable, and chose to sue them into obsolescence instead. Years later, Spotify arrived.
edmJ TIL that certain types of contact lenses worn only during sleep reshape your cornea. After taking them out in the morning, your vision is as good as it would be while normally wearing contacts or glasses. Studies also suggest the lenses slow or stop myopic progression in children.
AD6aB TIL that Humans can hear the difference between hot and cold water being poured. This is because the viscosity of water will go down as temperature increases.