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TIL 1749 out of 1750 species of cacti are native to only The Americas

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n1Go TIL The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has advertised in the playbill for the “The Book of Mormon” musical. One advertisement says “You’ve seen the play…now read the book.” Another reads “The book is always better.”
19d8 TIL in June, 1982, the largest non-nuclear blast seen from space occurred in Siberia. It was the result of computer sabotage orchestrated by the CIA.
6lJ8 TIL Land Rover’s first design had the steering wheel in the middle so it could be used in left or right side driving counties without modifications.
VBl0p TIL that the US nuclear codes were 00000000 for twenty years
0dbAR TIL in 1997 a crew of 6 robbed $18.9m in cash from the Dunbar Armored facility in LA; one of them had cased it while working there. They left almost no evidence & concealed their wealth for 2 yrs until one of them paid a broker with bills still in the original currency straps, which got them caught.