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TIL that "The Iodine State" was South Carolina's nickname in the 1930s and even on license plates, in an effort to promote the state's vegetables as having more healthy iodine than other other state's vegetables

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MDDW TIL that it is called a “shift” key because on typerwritters uppercase letters were typed by holding down a key that would literally shift the carriage so that a different part of the type bar—the part on which an uppercase letter was printed—would hit the ribbon.
dD7pB TIL of the Triforce. A 2002 arcade board based on Gamecube hardware and jointly developed by Sega, Nintendo and Namco.
j61wR TIL about the Younger Dryas Impact Theory, the idea that 12,800 years ago, the resulting impacts from a comet breaking up over earth's atmosphere would have struck glaciers and ice caps across the globe could have caused the great flood present in many ancient culture's stories/myths
VBkYG TIL the U.S Army once designed an anti armor grenade that would be the same size and shape of a football so US soldiers knew how to sling it and the prototype was built using a hollowed out nerf ball.
JGJ4 TIL that Leka II, Crown Prince of Albania, was born in South Africa. The South African government declared his maternity ward temporarily Albanian territory to ensure that Leka was born on Albanian soil.