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TIL Minneapolis uses a dozen clams to test the cleanliness of the city's drinking water

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Lkbmp TIL Crazy Train
7rKob TIL that Frito-Lay ran a market research study in the 90s to rebrand Doritos, which resulted in making the corners of the chips rounded so they broke less and produced less scraps at the bottom of the bag.
D1ENY TIL that while the dwarf planet beyond Pluto is officially named Eris, and its moon is Dysnomia, they are unofficially called Xena and Gabrielle.
8aoEL TIL: Northwest Angle, MN was created when map maker, John Mitchell miscalculated the source of the Mississippi being the Lake of The Woods.
1bo7 TIL Patrick Stewart, was initially considered for the role of Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Roddenberry did not want to cast Stewart as Picard, since he had envisioned an actor who was “masculine, virile, and had a lot of hair”. Roddenberry’s first choice was Stephen Macht