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TIL that Rome is north of Chicago and Paris is nine miles south of the US / Canada border

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PYbZ TIL that the United States is 45th worst in terms of income disparity, ranking just behind Cameroon, Guyana and Iran. (CIA World Factbook)
VRKk TIL Beretta is the oldest gun company in the world being established 1526 in Brescia, Italy.
JeVm TIL the 1984 film, ‘Romancing the Stone’ was called a 'Raiders of the Lost Ark’ rip-off by TIME. The screenplay was actually written 5 years earlier by a Malibu waitress who died in a car crash shortly after the film’s release
epAab TIL about the secret Society of Harmonious Fists, which practiced a form of shadowboxing thought to render one bulletproof. They then proceeded to roamed the countryside and killed whoever they felt was weakening the Chinese economy, forcing retaliation of over 20,000 troops.
Yw7G TIL: Humidity levels can rise in the summer through “Corn Sweat” which is water evaporating from corn plants