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TIL Watermelon is the official state vegetable of Oklahoma.

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b9jK0 TIL that the person clinking glasses together in the Beatles song Yellow Submarine was Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones
jGdN TIL Richard Nixon described Bohemian Grove as “the most faggy goddamn thing you can ever imagine.”
1aplW TIL After a decompression accident killed four people in 1983, doctors discovered that decompression does not kill from pressure, but that fat in the bloodstream suddenly condenses in veins and immediately stops all blood flow.
Py0w TIL in 2005 Mark Zuckerberg gave a guest lecture in Harvard’s CS50 to a nearly empty lecture hall
b9AK9 TIL in 1851 because it was too expensive to import ice from the United States and Norway, an Australian man invented an ice-making machine and its first application, aside from making ice, was to cool beer. He was James Harrison, "the father of refrigeration"