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TIL that the Las Vegas Strip is not actually located in the city of Las Vegas.

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LQrBv TIL that the only time when more than half of the American public believed that the Apollo space program was worth the expense came at the time of the Apollo 11 lunar landing in 1969. Even then it only received 53% approval.
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ZwoQ TIL: We now consume about 100,000 words each day from various media, which is a 350% increase, measured in bytes, over what we handled back in 1980
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DO7r TIL A giant insect nicknamed the tree lobster was thought to be extinct for 80 years, but was rediscovered in 2001 on a remnant of an ancient volcano peak in the middle of the ocean.