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TIL the only country with no live chickens is Vatican City

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16De8 TIL former US President Jimmy Carter (RIP) campaigned in an Allman Brothers Band t-shirt, studied Bob Dylan lyrics, and listened to Wille Nelson songs while dealing with the Iran Hostage Crisis. President Carter's son even smoked weed on the roof of the White House with Willie.
oOrY TIL: In the US Asians earn 17% more than Whites.
4Xbmw TIL that Shutter Island is an anagram for "Truths and Lies" or "Truths/Denials"
N71RJ TIL Hasbro, the US kids toy company, once owned Death Row Records, the infamous gangster rap record label
b6JmE TIL that the first solo circumnavigation of the Earth wasn't completed until 1898, when Canadian-American sailor Joshua Slocum did it in a small sailboat he rebuilt by hand.