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TIL Raccoons can make more than 200 different sounds

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gp69 TIL that 69% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 USD in Savings, as of September 2016
5Ywyr TIL that even the Ku Klux Klan classifies the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group; the KKK were one of the main counter protesters against the Church's anti-Memorial Day protests at the Arlington Cemetery, Virginia
LQjPm TIL that In 2003, during Belgium's elections, an unexpected anomaly occurred: one candidate received 4,096 extra votes. Investigations revealed that a cosmic ray had likely struck the computer system, causing a bit flip—a phenomenon where a binary digit changes state, leading to computational error
R51V1 TIL that Luxembourg has more foreigners than locals, having the highest proportion of foreign-born residents to locals than other European countries. Most of the foreigners are Portuguese.
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