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TIL that 'The Nutbush' is only danced in Australia. Who says we don't have any culture?

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5v09 TIL that a carrot farmer trying to cut back food waste (over half of carrots produced are too ugly for grocery shelves) carved & created the first batch of ‘baby carrots’ using a green bean cutter. 30 years later, these carrots account for 70 percent of all carrot sales
n7aW TIL that the 15 minute chimes on Big Ben have lyrics: All through this hour/Lord be my guide/And by Thy power/No foot shall slide
WkLpL TIL In a 2004 episode of Sesame Street, Cookie Monster revealed that before he started eating cookies his name was Sid.
OZ6e TIL in 1833 a meteor shower occurred that was so intense that “the frequency of meteors was estimated to be about half that of flakes of snow in an average snowstorm.”
yrJp TIL a scientist stationed in Antarctica managed to score a date through Tinder with a girl camping just 45 minutes away.