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TIL that according to Kansas State University the “Bible Belt” of the US is one of the most sinful areas of the country.

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j6yAR TIL that in the Victorian period arsenic colours (which could and did kill) were used to dye consumer goods, from food coloring to baby carriages.
D1VAY TIL the US signed a treaty to convert to metric units in 1878. Instead of converting they changed the definition of all units to their metric equivalent.
5VQEP TIL that Fort Douaumont, the largest and most important fort in the French defense system during World War I, fell to a force of 98 Germans in 3 days in February 1916. It took the French army 302 days, and an estimated 337,000 casualties to retake it.
XEb0P TIL that from 1983 to 1987, the two members of the US House of Representatives from Maine, John McKernan and Olympia Snowe, were boyfriend and girlfriend. They later married after McKernan was elected Governor.
epBNL TIL Current Gen. M.2 NVMe SSDs are about as fast as last gen DDR2 Ram