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TIL Small Wisconsin town in 1967 planned to secede from state after accidentally being removed off the official highway map. Also there's a musical about it.

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PYobg TIL, that in 1987 MLB pitcher Charlie Kerfeld signed a 1 year contract with the Houston Astros for $110,037.37 AND 37 boxes of orange Jell-O, to be used in future pranks.
kOXNm TIL that whales and dolphins get sunburns too, sparking concern that the thinned ozone layer can lead to the development of skin cancer in these animals.
neeKY TIL we never see things as they are now, but as they were in the past, the delay is caused by the time it takes light to reach your eyes. We see the Moon as it was approximately 1.3 seconds in the past, the Sun as it was 8 minutes in the past, the Andromeda Galaxy 2.5 million years in the past.
5Ya0R TIL that there's an estimated 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) insects alive at any moment, meaning that there's about 124 million animals per acre of land
awn7M TIL in 1974, samples of canned food from an 1865 steamboat wreck were tested by the National Food Processors Association. Although appearance, smell and vitamin content had deteriorated, there was no trace of microbial growth and the 109-year-old food was determined to be still safe to eat.