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TIL The center point of the USA is ~20 miles (32 km) north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota. If it weren't for Hawaii and Alaska, it'd be ~ 2.6 miles (4.2 km) northwest of the center of Lebanon, Kensas

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ro60 TIL that US president Cleveland developed a close relationship with his friend’s baby daughter. When his friend died, a court appointed him to administer the estate, making him closer to the then 11 y.o. girl. When she graduated university at 21, Cleveland (49 y.o.) married her while President.
naL7 TIL Daylight Savings Time was originally started to conserve energy, but has since become obsolete.
M6E7 TIL cognitive scientist Brian Butterworth diagnosed Ronald Reagan with Alzheimer’s purely on the basis of speech errors in his speeches ten years before his disease was actually discovered
QJN69 TIL of "soft despotism": a state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. It gives people the illusion that they are in control, when in fact they have very little influence over their government.
09Dv TIL That Wombats poop cubed shape bricks