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TIL Wensleydale cheese was about to go out of production in the 1990s when it was featured at random in the Wallace and Gromit shorts and movie

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G8G1 TIL Puerto Rico is 75.8% White, higher than the mainland USA
b5oZ TIL that the father that shot down that expensive drone for spying on his teenage daughter while she was sun bathing, was released of all charges and the courts dismissed the cases
ZpPZY TIL that the fish California grunion lay eggs on sandy beach where they hatch after a fortnight. Grunion runs are graded from 1-5, depending on the number of fish that arrive, the length of the run and how long they mate for. It's impossible to walk on a beach with W5 run without stepping on fish.
0wpkN TIL: When testing underwater acoustics during the cold war in 1960, scientists detonated a series of 300lb bombs off of Perth, Australia. This was heard three and a half hours later 10,000 miles away in Bermuda.
LQLl9 TIL that, in addition to ethical concerns, Ford's Theatre won't put on "Our American Cousin" (the show Lincoln was assasinated during) in part because it's a comedy that just isn't very funny