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TIL that a survey in 2014 showed that 57% of Russians regret the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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dDrl8 TIL in the US there are 24 Tri-state, 28 Twin-city, 25 Tri-city and 5 Quad-city areas.
XZ6 TIL Jon Stewart’s salary is over 3x higher than Stephen Colbert’s
eDR5 TIL that after WWII the CIA recruited Nazi war criminals, who had worked on mind control/brainwashing techniques in Germany, to assist them with their own mind control experiments on unwitting US citizens.
D154D TIL Nikola Tesla planned to make school children smarter and healthier by saturating them unconsciously with electricity, wiring the walls of a schoolroom with high-voltage lines. The plan was provisionally approved by then superintendent of New York City schools, William H. Maxwell.
b6llp TIL blood oranges get their color from the pigment anthocyanin. This pigment needs low nightly temperatures to form. Anthocyanin is not commonly found in a majority of citrus fruits.