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TIL Jesse James once gave a widow who housed him enough money to pay off a debt collector and then robbed the debt collector as the man left the widows home

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W7QeN TIL Australia nearly became a republic in a 1999 referendum but was defeated 45/54
y0RJ TIL The Fibonacci sequence can be used to model an amazing variety of phenomena in mathematics, science, art and nature. It can be found in computer algorithms and seen in the branching of trees, or the spirals of a conch shell or a galaxy, but no one can really explain why.
epx6b TIL that Michigan produces both Sweet and Sour Crude Oil
ADbP7 TIL Iceland was extensively forested before the first humans settled there. But within 500 years of their arrival 95% of woodlands had been cut down, leading to soil erosion, crop failure and the eventual abandonment of many farms.
OPj1 TIL America isn’t the fattest country in the world. Mexico’s percentage of obese people exceeds America’s. Even then there are more countries with far higher obese percentages than the both of them.