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TIL 80% of the world's vanilla is grown on a single island

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0dy4v TIL that US Ex-Nazi Rocket Scientist Werner Von Braun wrote a scifi book where the Martian government is ruled by a single leader called "The Elon"
oBAkK TIL there is no agreement on what the value is of Zero to the power of zero.
RoX8 TIL in 1985 the Philadelphia police dropped two bombs on West Philadelphia
1aNg7 TIL it's illegal to let your donkey sleep in your bathtub in Arizona. In 1924, a merchant near the town of Kingman let his donkey sleep in an old bathtub when a local dam broke. The donkey was swept away in the tub and the locals spent a lot of manpower rescuing the animal. The donkey survived.
KYkWw TIL 70mm IMAX systems require a PalmOS device to operate. During the release of Oppenheimer on IMAX, a PalmOS emulator running on a Windows 10 tablet was used to show the film.