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TIL There is a type of cherry cultivar called the Black Republican

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RrX9 TIL The mouth of the Chesapeake Bay is the site of a 35-million year old impact crater and that shaped the bay
gr0aW TIL that the longest scientific name of any living or fossil organism is Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis, a bacterium isolated from soil collected at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, one of the longest place names in the world.
jkMR TIL The world’s first theater devoted exclusively to moving pictures appeared in Pittsburgh in 1905. Its founders called the place Nickelodeon, from the price of admission (a nickel) and “Odeon” the ancient Greek word for theatre.
aW5L TIL: New York Macy’s has an escalator made of wood … and is still in operation!
xDkw TIL that LASIK eye surgery uses the same algorithm NASA created to dock space shuttles in order to properly align the laser to the eye.