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TIL Florida has so much bizarre news stories because the state has exceptionally open public records and a high population

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wLrY1 TIL during the last ice age icebergs were found as far south as Miami
69r8J TIL that there is a museum called Real Bodies: The Exhibition in Las Vegas that exhibits real human bodies preserved through a process called plastination. This allowed for full body displays in dynamic poses.
WkXmN TIL Häagen-Dazs was created in the 1960s by an American couple living in the Bronx. They used a Danish-sounding name because it conveyed an "aura of the old-world traditions and craftsmanship" and added an umlaut even though that punctuation doesn't exist in the Danish language to make it stand out.
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