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TIL the United States has had a legally declared “state of emergency” almost continuously from 1950 to this day

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M7bJB TIL that more than three billion people rely on the ocean to make a living
5YGLn TIL that the 1904 Olympics Marathon was a total mess. One did most of the marathon in a car, another ate rat poison but survived and one took a nap by the side of the road for some part of the marathon.Details in the link.
ANpWo TIL That Fata Morgana, an optical phenomenon that produces inverted and erect images, occurs because rays of light bend when they pass through air layers of different temperatures in a steep thermal inversion where an atmospheric duct has formed.
gMYL TIL that The Pocahontas Myth by Disney is pretty much 100% false according to the Powhatan Nation
p8ZGe TIL that the Coca-Cola company chooses not to patent its secret formula, because then they would have to disclose it to the public.