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TIL the US Bureau of Land Management only allows 20 people per day to visit The Wave rock formation in Arizona and you have to apply 4 months in advance for a permit.

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69R58 TIL that the 1947 version of the Christmas film ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ was released in late Spring because the studio head argued that more people went to the movies in warmer weather, so the film was promoted without any references to Santa or Christmas.
pYJxQ TIL about the "Pig War" of 1859, an almost-war between the U.S. and Britain over U.S.-Canadian boundaries, all started by the shooting of a pig!
DQnyr TIL that Christopher Columbus didn’t have to prove that the world was round. Everyone already knew. The pervasive myth comes from a fictional embellishment written by Washington Irving in 1828.
wLpyM TIL an Ohio company including a physicist & biomimicry expert is developing a football helmet liner based on the shock-absorbing pelt of hedgehog quills. They've mimicked the structure of a hedgehog quill with a polymer which lets it bend but not break & mimicked the spacing & angle of each quill.
W7dXA TIL that Peter Benchley regret writing "JAWS". He later devoted himself to ocean conservation.