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TIL the Yakima Valley produces 77% of all hops grown in the United States.

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VwjG TIL that in 2010 a british policeman drove an Ice cream van into the middle of a riot and played “ice-cream van” music in an attempt to calm the youths. The official report was, ‘humour defused the situation and the trouble stopped’.
kjY7 TIL in 2012 Saudi Arabian Princess, Maha bint Mohammed bin Ahmad al-Sudairi reportedly tried to stiff some of Paris’s most exclusive boutiques for $20 million and skip out on a $7 million dollar hotel bill. Citing “diplomatic immunity”
LNmm TIL that Sean Bean, while filming Lord of the Rings, hated flying so much that, instead of going by helicopter, he sometimes opted to travel miles uphill in full Boromir gear
ppY4 TIL after a neo-Nazi group adopted a half-mile stretch of highway in Missouri, the state renamed it the “Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Memorial Highway”
dy8K TIL Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) went on to become a recruiter for NASA after the show was cancelled, recruiting the first female astronaut, Dr. Sally Ride, as well as the current NASA administrator, Charles Bolden.