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TIL Oklahoma's Official State Vegetable is Watermelon
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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.
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TIL The precursor to 'the rack' torture device was the Hippocratic bench, a medical device used to straighten the spine/set bones.
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TIL that Waco, Texas, had so many gunfights in the late 1800's that it was called >Six Shooter Junction.
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TIL not all people have an internal monologue and people with them have stronger mental visual to accompany their thoughts.
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TIL that the Internet Archive offers a huge collection of classic MS-DOS games, which can all be played directly in the browser