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TIL In 1934, Arizona almost went to war with California over water rights

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lQAN TIL that whenever acclaimed author Douglas Adams faced writer’s block, he reminded himself that he was the only student ever to be awarded a “10/10” in creative writing by his teacher, Frank Halford.
ANKKd TIL: The area of Lake Chad experienced four heydays between 39,000 BC and 300 BC. This has been called Mega-Chad.
4XgQo TIL the EU banned methanol in windshield washer fluid because alcoholics were drinking windshield washer fluid and dying.
nDJG TIL In the 1960s, Heineken proposed a novel idea: rectangular “World” beer bottles that could double as bricks for affordable housing.
BK1d TIL a “fag” was a younger schoolboy who was a personal “servant” to an older schoolboy in a private school. They practiced “fagging” and a senior fag was a “fag-master”