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TIL Terry Gross from NPR's Fresh Air does all her interviews in a dark room and they are not face to face , or often even in the same state

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6EMym TIL there is a town in Nebraska called Monowi with a population of one. The only resident is a woman, Eiler who is the mayor, clerk, treasurer, librarian, bartender and the only person left in the US’ tiniest town.
b9YrN TIL: The average NFL career lasts about three years; nearly 80 percent of players are bankrupt within three years of retirement.
dB9r TIL that in 1970s, people in Cambodia were killed for being academics or for merely wearing eyeglasses.
VnjB TIL that if honey is kept covered, it will never spoil. Pots of honey have been found that are thousands of years old that are still edible.
VBKe8 TIL on 2nd July 1602 in Edinburgh Alexander Rowan ("ane cruel man") was hanged for “setting ane woman’s bare arse on ane girdill quhen it wes red hot”