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TIL France is poorer than every US state except for Mississippi

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R7DJ6 TIL that only two employees are privy to the complete Coca-Cola formula at any given time and they are not permitted to travel together. When one dies, the other must choose a successor within the company.
4kedJ TIL the writer of 'Crime and Punishment', Dostoevsky, was sentenced to death by firing squad for political reasons. Moments before he was to be shot, a cart delivered a letter from the Tsar commuting the sentence to four years of exile in Siberia
DR1V TIL the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean had a God of disorder and chaos called ‘Juracán’. This word is the origin of the English word 'hurricane’
QN4OL TIL Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was founded in 1983 over a poker game.
m1J5R TIL about the town of Los Algodones, Mexico. Situated on the border with the United States, over 350 dentists populate the small town in order to provide affordable dental care to American visitors, leading to the nickname "Molar City".