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TIL the entire coastline of California is a National Monument, promising permanent conservation and ensuring there will not be new oil drilling within 12 nautical miles of the mainland.

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7r9Vx TIL Oregon has exclusively voted by mail since 1998.
8ae4 TIL in 2003, the “Infinite Monkey Theorem” was tested. Six Macaques were left with a working computer keyboard for a month. They produced six pages of mostly the letter “S” and a bashed-in keyboard covered in Macaque urine and feces.
N7EB6 TIL that houses were blown up or demolished during the Great Fire of London in 1666 in an effort to contain and stop the fires.
W7eo TIL As late as the seventeenth nannies in Europe gave young boys hand jobs as an efficient way to put them to sleep
d8wYQ TIL the 12 days of Christmas actually start with Christmas Day instead of leading up to it