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TIL that the United States has over 350 languages.

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oB6go TIL a meteor had fallen in the kingdom of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, and on it someone had written "The First Emperor will die and his land will be divided." When he heard this, he sent someone to investigate who did it, and when no one admitted, all the people living nearby the meteor were killed.
awBJ TIL that Vasili Arkhipov was a soviet submariner who, during the Cuban missile crisis, talked his captain down from firing a nuclear torpedo at US destroyers.
D1B8r TIL Ohio was formally and retroactively admitted to the Union in 1953, after it was noted Congress had skipped a step in the process 150 years prior.
oy7L TIL Organic foods advocate J.I. Rodale died on live TV minutes after bragging he’d live to be 100.
NX6d6 TIL, though released a month earlier, the Movie "My Blue Heaven" is a loose sequel to "Goodfellas". The screenwriter Nora Ephron based Steve Martin's Character on Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta in Goodfellas). She was also married to the Writer the book "Goodfellas" was based on, Nicholas Pileggi.