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TIL 21% of US adults are illiterate, and 54% have a literacy below sixth-grade level.

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vPKXj TIL Pinball was once banned because people thought it led to more youth crime.
XEAxQ TIL A mouse utopia experiment with unlimited food and water caused them to not breed, or carry pregnancies to term, violent tendencies, and isolation. The ones who isolated themselves avoided the violence but lost all social skills and stopped breeding all together.
5VON8 TIL the small city of Coalinga, California got its name due to steam trains. The town used to be known as "Coaling Station A," where trains would stop to pick up coal. Eventually the name became shortened to "Coaling A" and then "Coalinga."
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MWk8 TIL crisps (potato chips) are labelled “ready salted” because old-fashioned crisps came with a little bag of salt, which the consumer could choose whether or not to use.