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TIL that more Constitutional amendments have been proposed to reform or eliminate the Electoral College than on any other subject.

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1aJJP TIL that green eyes are the rarest colored eyes in the world with only 2% of the world’s population having green eyes.
mRNo TIL that in the wake of WWII, the combination of inexpensive geothermal power and high prices for imported fruit led to Iceland using the warmth from lava to grow banana trees.
KOm1G TIL about Henry Savery, a convict and Australia's first novelist. He was to be executed on April 22nd, 1825 in his native England for credit fraud amounting to £30K ( £2.3 million pounds today) Through influential friends this was commuted to transportation, only a day before his execution was due.
ADJVB TIL that, many years after chewing gum had been around, in 1906, the first BUBBLE gum ever sold was called Bilbber-Blubber
nkAW TIL that “Paris Syndome” is a psychological disorder whereby Japanese tourists visiting Paris for the first time experience such severe culture shock that they become ill.