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TIL that Mackinac Island was the United States 2nd ever national park but was converted to a State Park due to funding

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R5vL8 TIL blackjack has a house advantage of only around 1-2% for skilled players & up to around 20% for unskilled players, while craps has a house advantage as low as less than 1% for skilled players & up to around 16% for unskilled players.
4X5va TIL that F1 drivers pee inside their suits during the race
xQDb TIL in 1958, the US Air Force made plans to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon and wanted it to visible by the naked eye on earth. They hoped it would boost American morale to counter the USSR’s advances in the space race. Project_A119
948m TIL that all Perique tobacco, a pipe tobacco used in American Spirit Black cigarettes, is farmed on less than 16 acres of land in Louisiana, mostly by one man.
rNkrw TIL Michael Jackson’s Antigravity Lean Was Achieved with Special Shoes