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TIL United States is one of 23 countries that still has a working telegram service.

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v1RgD TIL: Of Nutty Narrows Bridge; a bridge built in the treetops during the 1960s specifically to help squirrels cross a freeway in Washington without getting hit by cars.
ge1D TIL FDR proposed a “Second Bill of Rights” that named a profitable job, a decent home, adequate medical care, a good education, and more as rights in the now-industrialized US.
W5aN [TIL] that after Chris Hadfield’s cover of “Space Oddity” from the ISS was removed from Youtube, David Bowie signed the rights to the song over to him so the video would stay up.
mxJQy TIL Butterflies were around on Earth 70 million years before flowers
J1MN4 TIL about 'Quahog Day', when Doug the Quahog predicts how many days of sunshine Cape Cod will get over the summer