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TIL that New Hampshire has a coastline

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01lv TIL Starbucks was to be called Pequod, after a whaling ship from Moby-Dick, but this name was rejected by some of the co-founders. The company was instead named after the chief mate on the Pequod, Starbuck.
m1KEo TIL That Dwane The Rock Johnson started his career in WWE with the name “Rocky Maivia”
oBmPE TIL Despite all the "Florida Man..." headlines, Florida doesn't necessarily have more weird people doing weird things than other states. They just have strong Sunshine Laws that make it super easy for journalists to mine records like police reports in order to write those stories.
0xoy TIL Judd Apatow once said, “Basically, my stuff is just John Hughes films only with four-letter words. Nobody made me laugh harder than John Hughes.”
6Eg78 TIL that there was a campaign of intimidation against the making of the Godfather by the mafia, including warnings to "Get the F*** out of town", the theft of 1 million dollars worth of film, and forced edits, this is why we never hear the word "mafia" in the film despite being in earlier drafts