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TIL that half of the US population lives in just 146 counties out of the 3000+ total.

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N901 TIL Famed dentist Painless Parker (who wore a necklace of teeth) & his Dental Circus lured naive patients by promising that the 50c extraction would be painless, or he’d pay $5. Screams of agony were drowned by a brass band while the audience was distracted, enjoying contortionists & dancing women.
neZkd TIL there is a record for fastest mile run in Death Valley while wearing a Darth Vader suit. It is 6 minutes 13 seconds and was done by Jonathan Rice.
jNPv TIL that the middle finger of Galileo Galilei is on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence.
LQb5v TIL that Michigan and Ohio went to war in the 1830s over… Toledo.
9XYG TIL that in 1599, a Spanish governor in early colonial Ecuador was executed by having molten gold poured down his throat.