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TIL Only ten U.S. states do not have a commercially navigable waterway that connects to the ocean.

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4Oe6 TIL in 1922, a fur trapper named Ben Cochrane was attacked by a pack of wolves in Manitoba. He shot and killed 7 wolves before running out of ammunition. He then beat 4 more to death, before his rifle finally broke in half. (Upper Right)
YAr7 TIL Johnny Cash recorded himself reading the entire King James New Testament.
QQbL TIL Ukraine agreed to give up their nukes in 95 if the U.S. agreed to defend them against an invasion.
YpK8A TIL Charles Joseph Minard was French Civil engineer and pioneer of info-graphics. Minard is famous for his flow graphs, one notably showing the trade of French wine. Information designer Edward Tufte said his map of the French invasion of Russia, "may well be the best statistical graphic ever drawn"
VBdV8 TIL that earthworms have "completely scrambled" genomes, and belong to the taxonomic class Clitellata.