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TIL 1 out of 3 Americans live in just four states. California, Texas, Florida, and New York.

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b9G99 TIL that the Republic of Vanuatu (on a small Pacific island) has an underwater post office, and a post box on the rim of an active volcano
wolJ TIL that Mother Teresa did not administer painkillers to those infirmed in her homes for the dying (one could “hear the screams of people having maggots tweezered from their open wounds without pain relief”), believing that pain brought them closer to Christ.
J18ZQ TIL that the movie Airplane was a parody of a 1957 movie called Zero Hour
811G TIL: that there is a town called Redditch. Redditch once produced 90% of the world’s needles.
rgKe TIL During WW2 Joe Medicine Crow, a native American, completed all four feats required to be a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him, taking an enemy’s weapon, leading a war party and stealing 50 horses from the SS, singing a Crow honour song as he rode away.