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TIL there is a movement known as Cascadia, whose purpose is to create a nation from British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon becoming the 20th largest country in the world

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d8JD8 TIL there really is a place called Sweet Home in Alabama.
X0kZr TIL astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but it was later discovered that due to a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece of his telescope, he was actually mapping the blood vessels in his own eye
1PjO TIL in 2010 the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson was deployed to Haiti after the 2010 Earthquake, and provided the island with 200,000 gallons a day of fresh drinking water from its desalination plants.
eOMk TIL George Lucas, for one dollar each, sold the rights of the original Star Wars trilogy to KUSC-FM, the public radio affiliate at his alma mater, to make a radio dramatization of the series.
yawe TIL there is a management company that targets dental offices and “educates” them on how to coerce patients into treatment plans they may not need or can’t afford. All of their teachings are based off of L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology programs.