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TIL that making clam chowder with tomatoes is illegal in Maine

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nepaP TIL, 5 exabytes of information was created between 12k BC and 2003 AD. But that rate has gone up to every two days by 2003. An exabyte is 1,024 petabytes, while a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes.
nWgrb TIL: That 749 Americans died in a secret D-Day training disaster in 1944 when German boats attacked their convoy. More died in this rehearsal than on actual Utah Beach, and D-Day was nearly cancelled because missing officers knew invasion plans.
Z8KRo TIL on four separate occasions, British retailer B&Q has had to recall sonic mole repellers in its Northern Ireland stores after being informed there are no moles in Ireland.
d8Xr7 Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature? Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean…
lbxG TIL actor Wallace Shawn, while playing Vizzini (“Inconceivable!”) in The Pricess Bride, didn’t understand the movie’s sense of humor. Director Rob Reiner gave him line readings, and he merely imitated them.