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TIL The Supreme Court unanimously decided that tomatoes were vegetables

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Wjw9 TIL Keiko, the orca who starred in Free Willy was released in the wild in July of 2002 after being in captivity for 23 years. A few weeks after his release, he showed up at a Norwegian fjord in hopes of seeking human contact and would even give children rides on his back.
bPDj TIL in the ‘Mosque of the Prophet’ in Medina, where the prophet Muhammad is buried, there is an empty spot beside Muhammad reserved for Jesus. It is believed Jesus will return; kill the Antichrist, rule for 40 years, and then be buried next to Muhammad. He will also break the cross and kill the pigs
ZpyyY TIL that if you were able to fold a sheet of paper in half, over and over, after 103 folds that piece of paper would larger than the whole observable universe.
nW88b TIL: USPS vehicles are not required to have a lincense plate.
6EX9m TIL that during the filming of Jaws, a real shark attacked a shark cage, Spielberg was so impressed with the footage that he incorporated it into the film. One of the characters, oceanographer Matt Hooper, was supposed to die in this scene but nobody was in the shark cage, forcing Hooper to live.