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TIL that Ben & Jerry’s created the first chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream

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VMy0Z TIL that no place in the continental US has an antipodal point on land. Dig a hole straight through to the other side of the Earth and you will come up in the Southern Indian Ocean. Only the very northern tip of Alaska and the state of Hawaii do; dig from Honolulu and you will surface in Botswana.
dDKX8 TIL diamonds are formed 90-125 miles below earth’s surface. Thats roughly the equivalent height of 23 mount everests. Then they make their way to the surface through volcanic eruptions or meteor strikes.
4kn8a TIL about the PXL2000 - a camcorder produced in 1987 that records video footage to standard audio cassettes.
J1o7Q TIL George Spencer, a one-eyed servant who was hanged in 1642 Connecticut on charges of sodomy with an animal after a malformed, one-eyed piglet was born, is considered the first wrongful execution and first verifiable false confession in U.S. history. Spencer was given a posthumous pardon in 2015.
4XOLw TIL of "Hauntology" a philosophical concept explaining "contemporary culture's persistent recycling of retro aesthetics and incapacity to escape old social forms" as a "nostalgia for lost futures."