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TIL Puerto Rico is 75.8% White, higher than the mainland USA

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WdvN TIL an Australian man in London, desperate not to miss his daughter’s birthday back home, posted himself to Australia in a crate which he helped design and build. He amazingly survived the three days journey and became a news sensation in 1964.
PYZ7L TIL about the Tarpeian Rock in Rome. In ancient times Romans threw traitors and murderers off this rock, named after the mythological first traitor to be flung from it: the Vestal Virgin Tarpeia.
N7Xp1 Today I learned that Lamborghini donated a Huracán Rwd to Pope Francis. The car will be auctioned, with proceeds being donated to charitable causes across the globe.
epAvk TIL space stations smell like “combinations of antiseptic, garbage, and body odor.”
x9JD TIL Heath Ledger was an avid chess player; he won Western Australia’s junior chess championship at age 10 and as an adult he would play against other chess enthusiasts at Washington Square Park.