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TIL that if Puerto Rico were a US state, it would have more electoral votes for Presidential elections than Mississippi.

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dKvQ TIL that the last duel in Canada was between two men who were so terrified of dueling, one fainted and the other was seized by horror. The guns were also loaded with blanks
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