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TIL North Dakota’s Tourism Slogan is “Hello”

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nWl77 TIL that Jimi Hendrix was in the US Army for a short stint in the early 1960's, but he eventually got kicked out due to his disinterest and behaviour problems.
VBmOp TIL about Poundbury, a experimental town/neighborhood created by then Prince Charles III, combining medieval, industrial, victorian, neoclassical an georgian architectural styles, with the intention to counter the monotonous architectural trends of the late 20th century
4kRDJ TIL employees at the General Motor’s Fremont Assembly plant were considered excessively unruly in the 1980s and often left empty glass bottles inside the doors of unfinished cars to annoy the future owners
Op76 TIL Stephen King wrote a handwritten review for Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix in which he said Dolores Umbridge was “the best fictional villain since Hannibal Lecter.”
KOlEG TIL During World War II, the U.S. military designed a grenade to be the size and weightof a baseball, since "any young American man should be able to properly throw it."