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TIL North Carolina has, along with the usual 'official state' things, an official beverage, boat, carnivorous plant, dance, dog, frog, freshwater trout, marsupial, tartan, and toast.

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LkgV TIL a counter-terrorism expert in the FBI continuously warned of an impending Al-Qaeda terrorist attack 5-6 years prior to 9/11. He was pushed out of the FBI in 2001 and took a job as security head in August..at the WTC where he died when the towers fell.
Eg1Bp TIL that Steve McQueen was on Charles Manson’s ‘Hit List’ and was meant to be assassinated like Sharon Tate in 1969
1aMxV TIL the Kentucky Derby has been held uninterrupted since 1875 even through the Great Depression & both World Wars. Millions of people around the world bet on the race with a wagering total of $209 million in 2017.
xGWb TIL that ferrets are more closely related to walruses, than they are related to dogs and are more related to dogs than they are related to cats
b6v49 TIL the writer of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Faculty also created Dawson’s Creek