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TIL HBO's Watchmen inspired Oklahoma's Dept. of Education to add the Tulsa Race Massacre into statewide curriculum

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ANM7 TIL that the headless horseman carried a whip made out of human spine.
6PwZ TIL 10^−360,783 is the probability that a monkey could write Hamlet in one go, including capitals and punctuation.
Wk6Z8 TIL Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital. (1924)
XEVlQ TIL in 2007, biologists discovered a harpoon from the 1800s lodged in a 50-ton Bowhead whale, leading them to believe the whale was at least 115 years old. This would place the whale in the Victorian Era. The Bowhead is believed to live up to 200 years.
Y7m4d TIL that umlauts used in a band’s name (ö, ü, etc) are called “rock dots”.