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TIL Five US States - Delaware, Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming - all lack a city over 100k population

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pr4Z TIL Nullsoft purposely went from Winamp 3 to 5, because “nobody wants to see a Winamp 4 skin”.
VPKm TIL a Japanese Oil Tanker captain fell into a cactus at a Santa Barbra Oil Field, provoking laughter from the local workers. 5 years later he returned in an Imperial Japanese Navy sub and made the first mainland shelling of the US at that oil field.
JYmrV TIL that from 2004 to 2011 Canada had Pillow Fighting League.
waJ7 TIL of the Mountains of Kong, a West African mountain range that was charted on maps for nearly a hundred years. It was later discovered that the mountains never existed and were made up by the original cartographer.
EGQx TIL television networks accidentally aired an episode of Three’s Company where John Ritter’s scrotum is briefly visible. When asked about the scene, John Ritter requested networks air both versions of the re-run, edited and unedited, because “sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t.”