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TIL that Congress is less popular than Genghis Khan, traffic jams, cockroaches, and Nickleback.

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gv4y TIL that the #1 high school in the US, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in which 2/3 of the student body is Asian but only via http://bit.ly/133mWgV
N7xYP TIL that depression (low energy, social withdrawal, etc.) is believed to be an evolutionary response that was advantageous to many humans to reduce the likelihood of them catching contagious diseases
L1D9 TIL while planning the invasion of Japan, the US ordered so many purple hearts that we still haven’t issued them all.
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