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TIL 93% of Americans eat pizza at least once a month

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AprB TIL engineers designing the Voyager mission planned it to avoid planetary encounters over Thanksgiving and Christmas
6EenY TIL about Bill Baxley, elected Atty. Gen. of Alabama at 29 yrs old in 1970. He reopened the 16th St. Church Bombing case and received a threatening letter from Edward R. Fields, Grand Dragon of the KKK. Baxley’s reply was short & sweet: “My response to your letter of Feb. 19, 1976 is - kiss my ass.”
ZyQa TIL that a Lyme disease vaccine was voluntarily pulled from the market after the manufacturer was sued by anti-vaccine groups.
eKl5 TIL that Mormon missionaries are no longer allowed to come to Switzerland
4EAX TIL that Germany prints paper currency for 60 different countries, and Canada makes coins for 62.