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TIL during the Civil War there was a Union version of the song Dixie that started, "Away down South in the land of traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators."

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eJWg TIL Nikola Tesla created the first logic gate in 1898 when he created the first remote controlled vehicle, over 50 years before Walther Bothe won the Nobel Peace Prize for it. He reportedly told onlookers multiple times it was simple science beforehand so that they would not think it witchcraft.
gMw1W TIL a bear in a state park got into campers’ coolers and used claws & teeth to puncture beer cans; Fish & Wildlife Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear tried a can of Busch, ignored the rest, then drank about 36 Rainier beers. They caught it a live trap baited with donuts, honey, open cans of Rainier.
a0Eb TIL that if you stood every single human being shoulder to shoulder we would fill the entire city of Los Angeles.
gr6ZD TIL highly modified egg whites can filter microplastics from seawater
b6jm4 TIL people can get stones in your scrotum, just like they can get bladder and kidney stones. They are called "scrotal pearls" or "scrotoliths" and are benign calfications within the scrotal sac.