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TIL there is an enclave of Kentucky cut off entirely from the rest of the state by neighboring Tennessee and Missouri.

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WkPGY TIL that Marie Curie's belongings are radioactive, including her lab notes, which are stored in lead lined boxes in the French National Library...
oB6R7 TIL The Beatles' first use of studio trickery was on the first song on their first album, "I Saw Her Standing There." Their producer George Martin used an 'especially spirited' count-in from take 9 (“One, two, three, FOUR!”) and spliced it onto take 1, which was the take used on the album.
nJ5W TIL that many pirates in the early 1700’s in the Caribbean were escaped African slaves. By some accounts, 70 served with the famous Blackbeard
VMdKG TIL :: The 1964-1966 Chrysler Imperial achieved near-legendary status for its crashworthiness, and it is still banned from most derby events.
BJoe TIL researchers from Cornell University are using computational models to generate rap lyrics. “In terms of quantitative rhyme density, the produced lyrics outperform best human rappers by 21%”.