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TIL on a banned episode of Sesame Street Oscar the Grouch fell in love with the Wicked Witch of the West

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VMMYZ TIL that aboout 1000 miles east of the EU, within southern Russia, exists the Republic of Kalmykia, the only region in Europe where Buddhism is the most common religion, most people are Kalmyks—descendants of Mongol hordes, and Kalmyk, related to Mongolian, is an official language alongside Russian.
kJo0g TIL of the Carolina Parakeet, which was once native to the US and went extinct in the 1910s. It lived as far north as New York and Wisconsin and as far west as Colorado
LJmm TIL that the highest paid state employee in the USA is Nick Saban, the Alabama football team head coach, making $7.09 million a year
OXpa TIL The very first attempted assassination of a United States president was stopped when then President, Andrew Jackson, beat his assailant brutally with a his cane before being stopped by a nearby congressmen.
b9DM7 TIL Hitler’s Private Train Was Named ‘Amerika’