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TIL Around 500,000 maya peoples live in the United States

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pYxpb TIL that in the United States, there are at least 17 counties, 70 towns and cities, 10 squares, 33 streets, 14 schools, a hill, a park, a river, four hotels, a mountain, and two theaters named after the Marquis de Lafayette, a French General in the American Revolutionary War.
E1Law Today I learned Buffalo is a complete sentence, no matter how many times it is in a sentence, from 1 to infinity....
Y7LYd TIL that the founder of Adidas and the founder of Puma are in fact brothers: Adolf and Rudolf Dassler
x6L47 TIL Hawaii has an endemic Hawk | The Hawaiian hawk or ʻio (Buteo solitarius) is a raptor in the genus Buteo endemic to Hawaii, Currently restricted to the Big Island. The ʻio is one of two extant birds of prey that are native to Hawaii, the other being the pueo
P1NBE TIL the first take of the London Symphony Orchestra recording John Williams's "Superman" theme was ruined by director Richard Donner running out of the control room and onto the studio floor screaming, "Bravo! Genius!" because he "heard" the theme "saying Superman's name": "SU-PER-MAAAAAN".