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TIL: A Single Watermelon Once Sold For $6100

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YeBd TIL sticks of butter in the U.S. are shaped and packaged differently based on whether they will be sold east or west of the Rocky Mountains because of historical differences in “butter printers.”
YpLQW TIL When whales die, there is a buildup of gas in the decomposition process. This, combined with the whales’ thick blubber, occasionally causes them to explode.
8e9gP TIL The founder of Sony hired an outspoken critic of their products so they could make better products. 20 years later, he became the president of Sony
wLYWo TIL that technically there is no city named Tokyo. Tokyo is a prefecture, something like a state, and not a city. Also, there is no city named Tokyo inside of Tokyo Prefecture.
N79ae TIL SOS doesn't actually stand for anything at all, it's just very distinctive and easy to write in Morse code