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DM9g TIL Saudi Arabia purchased a large chunk of land in Arizona just to grow hay and ship it back to their dairy farms.
epZj6 TIL that .io is a ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain) and not a generic IT/developer related domain. It belongs to the British Indian Ocean Territory and will be phased out.
Ae57 TIL: When children are vaccinated against measles, their risk of dying from other infectious diseases falls by half. Scientists believe this is because catching the measles can weaken your immune system for years.
pY6eG TIL that after Hawaii became a part of the United States, members of the Kawānanakoa family became part of political parties that would become the Democratic and Republican parties of Hawaii like David
N7gZN TIL of Marcel Tyberg, a Viennese composer who, because of his 1/16th Jewish heritage, was killed at Auschwitz in 1944. Before his capture, he entrusted his scores to a close friend. The scores ended up in the US but were untouched for decades. Within the last 10 years, his music was rediscovered.