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TIL Norwegians are using ‘Texas’ as a slang term for 'crazy’

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GlkJ TIL that for one day in 2008 there was an app in the App Store that cost $999.99 USD and did nothing. 8 people bought it.
MeWJ8 TIL about Ruth Belville, a woman who would "sell" people the current time. She did so by setting her clock to Greenwich mean time and then have people pay for the opportunity to adjust their own watches to it.
VveQ TIL that Mississippi has the highest child vaccination rate of any state. (99.7%)
QJMr9 Til A museum in New York sheds light on the history of chocolate. Anthropologists find, chocolate was produced by pre-Olmec cultures living in Mesoamerica(now Mexico) as early as 1900 B.C. After the Spanish colonized Mexico in 1524, they acquired the recipe of chocolate and brought it to Europe
wZ8W TIL the original screenplay for Spielberg’s Lincoln biopic was 500 pages long. Rather than cut down the whole thing, he took the 160-page section about the 13th Amendment and made the film about that instead