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TIL that the official state vegetable of Oklahoma is the watermelon.

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9Q0Q TIL that Philips and Sony designed their first audio CDs to hold up to 74 minutes to ensure they could hold a complete recording of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
m8NE TIL that Mozart was obsessed with poop, a fact widely acknowledged by scholars.
WkrE8 TIL that we eat plastics and it turns out we eat as much as a credit card in a week.
Oo1Ma TIL about the "whale pump". Whales tend to defecate in surface waters; additionally the feces tend to float. Whales feed at deeper levels of the ocean where krill is found. The fecal action of whales thus reverses the usual flow of nutrients of the ocean's "biological pump"
P11QJ TIL a high school student posted a photo of dirty water coming from her school's bathroom sink online, a problem administrators had long ignored. The social media backlash caused the school to send a plumber out "right away," but she got a 3-day suspension for "inappropriate use of electronics."