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TIL Watermelon is the official state vegetable of Oklahoma.

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QGYX TIL that the font Comic Sans was created for the speech bubble of Bob The Dog for Windows 95. Bill Gates originally wanted it to be in Times Roman but font engineer Vincent Connare said “we can do better than that" and created Comic Sans
DyYe TIL: There are only 3 modern city-states in our world. Singapore, Monaco and Vatican City.
78wgr TIL that the original LOVE sculpture is housed in a museum in Indiana and was created Robert Indiana who born in Indiana
yVkJ8 TIL there has been one member of the US Congress that was born into royalty. Prince Jonah Kuhio was Hawaiian nobility before the territory was annexed and he served in the House of Reps from 1903-1922. Happy Prince Kuhio Day / 152nd Bday!
JY7Bm TIL Tomochichi, renown Native American Chief and friend to the english was given a monument and burial site at the center of Savannah, GA's Wright Square, only to have it destroyed and replaced with a monument to a railroad man in 1883.