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TIL over 30% of the US population lives in four states: California, Texas, Florida, New York.

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wrrM TIL of Louis Slotin, a scientist who died while working on the Manhattan Project. He accidentally dropped a hemisphere of beryllium on a plutonium core; witnesses saw glowing blue light and felt a heat wave. He died nine days later. The plutonium core was later nicknamed the “demon core”.
9KDp TIL that during the Great Depression, African colonial subjects living in the Cameroons took up a collection to aid the starving people of America, ultimately mailing $3.77 to the mayor of New York City to assist relief efforts there.
VMgP4 TIL the nurse being kissed by the sailor in the iconic V-J photo went unidentified for 20 years, when she self-identified and explained she "had stepped outside to see what the commotion was when I suddenly found myself in a sailor's embrace." The two had never met, and the photo was caught by luck.
pwPA TIL that the Vatican City is named after the hill that it’s built upon, the name of which pre-dates Christianity
R7dK9 TIL Susannah Mushatt Jones: World's oldest person says that she eats bacon every day