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TIL: the theme song to the Andy Griffith Show has lyrics.
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TIL the statue of liberty's copper sheeting is only 3/32 of an inch thick about two pennies together.
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TIL in Rwanda on the last Saturday of every month, everyone gets together in their neighbourhoods to do a collective clean-up - roads are swept, rubbish collected. It is called Umuganda, which in Kinyarwanda means "Community Work".
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TIL about the tabulating machine, which was invented to help process the 1890 Census and spawned the data processing industry, IBM, and modern computing as a whole
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TIL the Hindenburg disaster was only the fifth deadliest airship disaster of all time.
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TIL the Toyota Camry is named after the Kanmuri, the long hat traditionally worn only by Japanese Emperor and other aristocrats