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TIL Herbert Hoover was the first President to be born west of the Mississippi River.

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x6JD1 TIL that in 1948 the Idaho Dept of Fish and game parachuted 76 beavers into the Chamberlain Basin in Central Idaho
BrG5x TIL the famous Ralph Wiggum in danger meme is ironically not from a Simpsons episode but from a Family Guy crossover episode with the show.
RK11 TIL Canadian Thanksgiving was the original Thanksgiving. The first one was celebrated by Martin Frobisher in 1578, who wanted to praise god that he survived his expedition to search for the Northwest Passage.
XEvbR TIL putting LED lights on float lines of 864 fishing gillnets reduced the bycatch of sea turtles by 74.4% & by 70.8% for dolphins, whales, & porpoises. The same amount of targeted fish were caught by both 864 lighted gillnets & 864 unlighted gillnets in a study of 3 ports in Peru from 2015 - 2018.
e8LJ TIL that possibly the world’s oldest surviving written text (around 4500-years old), known as the ‘Instructions of Shuruppak’, gives the following advice - “Do not pass judgment when you drink beer.”