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TIL Upper Peninsula of Michigan(UP) is the only region in the US where Finnish Americans make up a plurality of the population. Even the local English dialect is influenced by Finnish.

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XEnNr TIL about a Hungarian soldier named Paul Kern who stayed awake for 40 years after being shot in the head during World War I. Doctors encountering his condition were always skeptical, but Kern traveled far and wide, allowing anyone who wanted to examine him to do so. He died in 1955.
lol67 TIL 1 of 3 job exemptions in US child labor laws are for “the making of evergreen wreaths”
nlxb TIL that Joycelyn Elders, the Surgeon General who was fired for suggesting the teaching of masturbation as a prevention of risky sexual activity in younger people also suggested that drug legalization would reduce crime.
ne7lo TIL There Are 2 Pieces of Aluminum from the Destroyed World Trade Center on the Surface of Mars. They were quietly built into 2 of the Mars Rovers.
oB9wL TIL Japan has the highest rate of cremation in the world, at approximately 99.9%.