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TIL that state vegetable of Oklahoma is the Watermelon…which is a fruit.

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0ddRR TIL prominent high-fashion designer Martin Margiela had a 1989 fashion show on a playground near Paris. The public were invited, including children, who sat on the ground in front. The kids didn't observe usual decorum as they posed for photos, sprinted onto the runway, and rode a model's shoulders
vP5EL TIL that in 1972 Scottish professional football club Dundee United played a series of friendly games in Nigeria in which they only managed to win one of them. The club's performances shocked the locals so much that "Dundee United" or just "Dundee" is now used as slang to mean "idiot" in Nigeria
P85n TIL Mr. T stopped wearing gold chains in 2005 because he thought it would be an insult to the people who lost everything after Hurricane Katrina
Br5Pr TIL of the “Bonnacon,” a Medieval legendary bull that sprayed caustic feces at its pursuers, burning them, because it supposedly had useless horns.
8ePob TIL about the thrifty scot stereotype, a dying trope where Scottish people are often characterized as exceedingly stingy