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TIL David Lynch did a commercial for PlayStation 2.
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TIL The man who took the first up close photo of a snowflake, Wilson A. Bentley in 1885, also started the concept "No two snowflakes are alike". In his lifetime, he took over 5k photos of snowflakes.
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TIL of the Clay Belt, a large area suitable for farming in northern Ontario and Quebec. Although land is free for use and very fertile, settlement attempts repeatedly failed; one farmer gave up because “there are seven months of snow, two months rain, and all the rest is black flies and mosquitoes”.
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TIL humans domesticated dogs before we domesticated potatoes
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TIL that a 2012 April Fools' Joke was the genesis of Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout beer, made with three BPB (balls per barrel) of sliced, roasted bull testicles.
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TIL While visiting Camp David in 1973, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was given a Lincoln Continental by Richard Nixon. Brezhnev coaxed Nixon into the passenger seat and then drove off the property, leaving the President’s security detail behind as the two leaders sped down rural, narrow roads.