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TIL 53 percent of the people who live in Fiji don’t have access to clean, safe water yet Fiji water is the nation’s largest export

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VArk TIL a man earned 4 million airline miles for free without breaking any laws by using his credit card to purchase free-delivery $1 coins from the U.S. mint.
QW7L TIL a mother cow in a US dairy farm made a “Sophie’s Choice” - she hid 1 of her newly born twins and let the farmer took away the 2nd one in the hope of saving at least one of her babies. Both babies were slaughtered.
AbXd TIL: Corrections Corporation of America is a private company that owns jails that had 1.7 billion dollars in revenue in 2012.
yWVe TIL that the Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee, can’t sell any liquor because it is in a dry county. Instead, they sell commemorative Jack Daniels bottles that happen to have whiskey in them.
w6LE TIL 90,000 Kentuckians fought for the Union, while 35,000 fought for the Confederate States. But Kentucky has 72 Confederate monuments and only two Union ones