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TIL, South Dakota had a large advertising campaign: “Meth — we’re on it”

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P1ZAn TIL Bob Marley's grandma was a White Jamaican Jew.
dDrZB TIL of the Cavalese incident of 1998 that occurred on February 3, 1998, in Cavalese, Italy. A US Marine Corps aircraft was flying at a low altitude when it severed the cable of a ski lift. The cable car plummeted to the ground, resulting in the deaths of all 20 people on board.
Ok9e TIL it costs approximately 1.6 cents to make 1 penny, as a result the mint loses around $55 million just on the production of these coins
b9yka TIL Ryan Newman lead a campaign that may have just saved his own life. Newman crashed badly at the Daytona 500 back in 2003 prompting him to push for a reinforced bar across the windshield. In 2009 it became a regulation in NASCAR commonly referred to as the “Newman bar”.
lo9Dr TIL how Santa Barbara California got its name. On December 4, 1602, Spanish explorer Sebastian Vizcaino sailed through the Santa Barbara Channel, which he named in honor of St. Barbara’s Feast Day. It wasn’t until 1782 that the town of Santa Barbara received its name.