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TIL In the 1790 census, a member of the House of Representatives had an average of 34,436 constituents. In the 2020 census, the average was 761,169.

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ANO04 TIL The NES Zapper Gun worked by turning the screen black and placing a white box around the target. The gun had a light sensor which detected the light from the white box. If it detected light, you hit the target.
QNE8X TIL that in 2013 in Florida a sinkhole opened up under a house and swallowed a man's bedroom with him sleeping in it.
7j97 TIL the British online newspaper ‘The Independent’ is owned by Russian oligarch, Alexander Lebedev and his son. Lebedev also owns a stake in Gazprom, a Russian oil company headquarter in Moscow, and a stake in Sbrerbank, a Russian bank accused of funding insurgents in Ukraine.
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JYEel TIL in 1951 negotiations to end the Korean War broke down as over 21,000 Communist POWs wanted to defect to UN forces. The war would drag on for 2 more years.