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TIL there is only 1 area code in Idaho

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yoWa TIL that the Oceanic and Continental Poles of Inaccessibility are almost identical in distance measurements.
aKRy TIL that in 1982 3 men spent more than six months living on a billboard in an attempt to outlast the others to win a radio contest for a $18,000 home. One of the men was arrested half way into the contest for selling weed from on top of the billboard.
Bg4Vy TIL Ghyslain Raza (the Star Wars Kid) began getting tutored at home because the school staff asked him not to return the following year after students started to tease or mock him which they saw as bad publicity. Although, he was able to move past it and now has a law degree & is working on his PHD.
j6Xen TIL about Prosthaphaeresis, a technique that uses trigonometric identities to quickly approximate a product of 2 numbers by turning it into an addition. It was the only known technique to do so, preceding by 25 years the discovery of the logarithm
X0D06 TIL Jimi Hendrix never had a #1 single. Or even in the top 10. His highest charting single reached #20.