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TIL that 90.4% of internet users don’t use Twitter.

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XEMy8 TIL that in 2011, the Twin Cities experienced such extremes in weather that the day the last of the snow finally melted, it was 103°F.
4X5lo TIL the fee for renouncing your citizenship in the United States is $2,350, which is the highest citizenship renunciation fee of any nation and 20 times higher than the average price of other high-income nations.
GAn71 TIL during the international Tokyo Trial of the Japanese Leadership during WWII, Justice Pal from India was the sole dissenter who found that the defendants were all innocent as he argued that the crimes they were accused of were not illegal when they were committed.
O4Aa TIL that in the Russian Version of Winnie the Pooh, Pooh is a pseudo intellectual poet and Piglet has a gun.
R7Or6 TIL Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of the East) was badly burned while filming The Wizard Of Oz. After being hospitalized she returned to set but refused to do any scenes with fire so her stunt double took her place in a scene riding a prop that spewed smoke which exploded injuring her as well.