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TIL that despite its nicknames “The Orange State” and the “Sunshine State” Florida ranks 10th in sunny days and second in orange production.

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aw1GZ TIL Voting is mandatory in Belgium. Citizens are automatically registered in the electoral polls and more than 90% of the eligible population takes part in the voting process, since you risk a fine if you do not vote either in person or by proxy.
pDd4 TIL that Bob Dole’s 1996 campaign web site is still online.
9WAM TIL In ancient Phoenician Sardinia, whenever elderly people were no longer able to support themselves, they were given a neurotoxic plant called “sardonic herb” and thrown off of a cliff. It is the source of the term “sardonic grin” because of the facial expression the plant caused following death.
EZX TIL Nuclear power has 4,000 times fewer deaths per watt produced than coal.
bWB4 TIL Some species of bamboo flower only once every 120 years, and they do it at exactly the same moment worldwide regardless of climate or location, then die.