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TIL The song Take Me Home Country Roads, in Virginia, by John Denver was originally Take Me Home, Clopper Road in Maryland

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9Y0PQ TIL In 2017, 94 year old Nobel laureate Yang Zhenning gave up their American citizenship to become CAS Chinese academicians, the highest academic title in China. Yang renounced his American citizenship in 2015 and his father had never forgiven him for giving up his Chinese nationality
b9rej TIL due to lifestyle changes over the last 150 years, the average human body temperature has decreased from 98.6 Fahrenheit to around 97.5
OxjX TIL after Hurricane Ike in 2008, Comcast customers were billed for unreturned equipment that had been destroyed by the hurricane. Customers were charged as much as $1000 for failing to return modems, DVRs, and other equipment that had been lost or destroyed.
1av08 TIL legend has it that when Julius Caesar was born, they had to cut open his mother’s womb to deliver him. That’s why the modern surgery is called a Caesarian section.
WkAR9 TIL there are planets considered more habitable than Earth, based on potential for biodiversity. Scientists have identified 24 such planets so far.