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TIL that in 1927 several million people in the United States sent over 100,000 petitions urging Congress to adopt the metric system.

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J1X8 TIL That the term “Third World Country” does not mean poor, it refers to a country which was not aligned with either America/First World or Soviet/Second World during the Cold War.
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GAemg TIL that the last words of Apache leader and prisoner of war Geronimo were: "I should have never surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive."