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TIL that New Hampshire has a coastline

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XEY18 TIL Gilbert Arenas starred in a production of the play Our Town, alongside teammates Etan Thomas, Jared Jefferies, and Boost mobile spokesman Faizon Love.
oDRY TIL: A legless girl was adopted at birth, became a successful, competitive gymnast, idolizing Dominique Moceanu, and later learned that they were biological sisters.
pYJAN TIL there are miniature drones like we see in the movies called the "Black Hornet Nano", which are in active use by Militaries around the world. They measure 16x2.5cm and cost $195,000 each!
OjXe TIL in 1999, Daylight Savings Time thwarted a terrorist bombing in Israel. The West Bank had changed clocks while Israel hadn’t. The terrorists had set timers on bombs which detonated an hour early, killing three terrorists.
oBg7A TIL Eddie Anderson was the first black man to have a horse run in the Kentucky Derby. Because of segregation Anderson stayed with civil rights leader Mae Street Kidd in Louisville. When Anderson's horse won a race he dressed up as a Kentucky colonel at MGM and only answered to 'Colonel Rochester'