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TIL that fortune cookies were invented in the United States

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EgmrV TIL the phenomena of a jubilee where sea life rise close to the surface resulting in easy fishing only happens in two places....Tokyo Bay and Mobile Bay in Alabama
LmVZ TIL that Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, felt his professor at Harvard was giving him unfair grades. To prove it he turned in a paper from George Orwell and received a B-.
4kk5 TIL Pope Benedict VIII condemned cats as evil and had them burned by the thousands. This led to an explosion of the rat population and attributed to the effects of the Black Death