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TIL The United States does not have an official language

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wonaY TIL the U.S. government incurs a yearly loss of $110 million from minting pennies.
N7gX1 TIL that when Thomas Bopp discovered the comet through a friends telescope in 1995, he notified officials via telegram. The director later laughed and stated "Nobody sends telegrams anymore, by the time that telegram got here, Alan Hale had already e-mailed us three times with updated coordinates."
dQZd TIL Karl Marx’s grave has an entry fee
PPRg TIL Dorothy Kilgallen, a regular on the show “What’s My Line?”, claimed to have interviewed Jack Ruby and that she was “about to blow the JFK case sky high.” She was found dead in 1965 and the cause of death was officially ruled as undetermined.
MekL8 TIL of Jessica O. Matthews, a Nigerian-American entrepreneur. At the age of 19 she invented the Soccket, which is a soccer ball that stores kinetic energy and can provide three hours of light after half an hour of play.