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TIL there is an alligator at Gatorland in FL missing half its top jaw. After rehab they named her Jawlene as a nod to Dolly Parton and she is thriving!

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pmKb TIL that 70 scientists working on the Manhattan Project signed a petition calling for a demonstration of the atomic bomb to be held with Japanese officials present. It never reached President Truman.
b6LoZ TIL An article on The Guardian from 2004 was one of the first to use the word "Podcast" in reference to rise of of "Audioblogging" as the iPod started picking up traction.
Do1e TIL it is the chemical reaction between vegetables and olive oil that makes the Mediterranean diet healthy.
6ElnW TIL that it’s illegal to grow the maca vegetable outside of Peru.
jN0bR TIL Robert Propst, inventor of modern day Cubicles in 1968, called them “monolithic insanity” before he died in 2000.