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TIL that making clam chowder with tomatoes is illegal in Maine

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KOgRa TIL the 'ye' in 'ye olde' is pronounced 'the'. In old English, they had a letter for the 'th' sound, þ, which in handwriting looked a lot like the letter 'y' and were often used interchangeably.
x6e5g TIL about SubTropolis, a giant former limestone mine under Kansas City that was converted into the world’s largest underground business complex. The 1,100-acre complex is accessed through tunnels, and as of 2015, 1,600 people worked there.
X0Obj TIL: California Town Brings in 40,000 Tourists for a Frog Jumping Festival
b9Rjj TIL, a loofah is the fruit of two edible gourd species. It is very fibrous when ripe but perfectly edible when young. The edible version is called a luffa.
696G7 TIL humans in the form we are now are up to 300,000 years old. Meaning thousands ands thousands of couples had to procreate for you to exist right now.