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TIL that people live inside the Grand Canyon. Supai Village, the capital of the Havasupai Indian Reservation, boasts a population of a couple of hundred residents, is considered the most remote community in the continental US, and is the only place where mail is delivered and carried out by mule.

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WkVyo TIL a man willed his estate to whichever woman in Toronto bore the most children in the decade after his death. Four women tied at 9 children and received $100,000 each.
Me9l7 TIL that up until 2018, colored eggs were considered to be an avian innovation that had evolved in birds. However, a phylogenetic analysis published in nature found that colored eggs evolved deep within the dinosaur tree and long before the radiation of modern birds.
vPKR8 TIL that Jimmie Davis, the Country Music Star who co-wrote the song "You Are My Sunshine", also served as Governor of Louisiana from 1944 to 1948 and again from 1960 to 1964
6EP18 TIL that the white area in the center of ice cubes is a buildup of impurities, mostly sediment and trapped air bubbles. Because freezing starts from the outside in, these materials are pushed to the center of the cube while the pure areas remain clear.
ANY0w TIL about Chaicharn Harnavee, a Thai Special Force and POW in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. For assisting the American POWs who shared his captivity, Harnavee received the Silver Star and Legion of Merit medals from the United States and his picture is hung in the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes.