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TIL Oklahoma's Official State Vegetable is Watermelon

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b9mm0 Today I learned, after airspace was closed after the attacks of 9/11, 38 planes were diverted to a large dormant airport in Newfoundland Canada and the residents of Gander in Newfoundland welcomed in nearly 7,000 people into their homes and schools to stay while they where stranded for 6 days.
j6eRa TIL The precursor to 'the rack' torture device was the Hippocratic bench, a medical device used to straighten the spine/set bones.
GYYe7 TIL that Waco, Texas, had so many gunfights in the late 1800's that it was called >Six Shooter Junction.
Z81Wp TIL not all people have an internal monologue and people with them have stronger mental visual to accompany their thoughts.
NEb8 TIL that the Internet Archive offers a huge collection of classic MS-DOS games, which can all be played directly in the browser