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TIL about Dead Horse Bay's Glass Bottle Beach. A beach covered in glass bottles and other nonbiodegradable garbage from a land reclamation project in the 1950s now exposed due to erosion.

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gr9d9 TIL: That Muhammad Ali had Irish ancestry and visited the country on a number of occasions. In 2009, he took time out to visit Ennis in County Clare, the home town of his ancestor Abe Grady whereupon he was also made first honorary freeman of the town.
9YRxM TIL every morning, English submarines equipped with nuclear warheads emerge and tune in to BBC Radio 4 "Today" show. If it fails to transmit, they assume UK had been destroyed.
0wdap TIL that at least 10 different US towns in 4 different states claim to be the birthplace of American folklore legend Paul Bunyan
7y6O TIL Nectarines are just mutant peaches
4Xb7g TIL the first mathematical theorem to be created and proven on TV was on Futurama (The Prisoner of Benda). If two people could switch unique pairs of bodies only once, it requires only two extra individuals to return everyone to their original bodies.