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TIL: Louisville Kentucky produces 90% of the world’s discoballs

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N7OMb TIL there is a monument in Canada commemorating the 14th division of Hitler's SS.
ZDOY TIL During college, Anderson Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the Central Intelligence Agency. Although he has no formal journalistic education, he opted to pursue a career in journalism rather than stay with the agency after school.
l778A TIL about Nigel, the “World's loneliest bird' who fell in love with a concrete replica and died beside it.
v15d8 TIL Listerine was initially used as an anti-septic and is named after Joseph Lister, the doctor who famously used the first anti-septics in the medical field. It has also been sold as floor cleaner and as a cure for Gonorrhea
PYbZ TIL that the United States is 45th worst in terms of income disparity, ranking just behind Cameroon, Guyana and Iran. (CIA World Factbook)