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TIL Drunk surfing is illegal in Iowa.

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N7k9Q TIL about Humphrey the whale. Entered San Francisco Bay two times in 1985 and 1990. Both of his bay incursions resulted in rescue by the Marine Mammal Center, based in Marin County, California, assisted by the United States Coast Guard and hundreds of other volunteers.
VvNB TIL an Alabama man robbed four Subways because he was angry that the ‘Jared Diet’ had failed him
JY4R1 TIL NBC would occasionally add a fourth note to its chimes to notify reporters to immediately return to the office to prepare historic news reports. The fourth chime was most famously used during the nation's D-Day reports, but was discontinued after WWII.
mPlP TIL the 1964 Hollywood War Spectacular ‘The Battle of the Bulge’ was so historically inaccurate, that President Dwight D Eisenhower came out of retirement and held a press conference just to denounce the film.
NXOv8 TIL that Jayne Mansfield's father died of a heart attack while she was in the car with him. She was 3 years old. Her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, was in the car accident that killed Mansfield. Mariska was also 3 years old at the time.