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TIL one of the US senators from Idaho is named “Mike Crapo”

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we87 TIL A koi fish, named “Hanako”, was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
nWwNW Today I learned that you need 64,000 gallons of oil per year to run the amount of wind turbines that match the energy output of 1 900 mw nuclear power plant.
AN7oB TIL more than 50 percent of people get away with murder.
ne4QW TIL The Soviet KGB fabricated evidence linking the Central Intelligence Agency to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and passed the material to unwitting conspiracy theorists in the United States, according to the Mitrokhin Archive based on KGB files brought to the West by a defector.
r7Ad TIL The highest peak east of the Mississippi,Mount Mitchell was named after Elisha Mitchell, who, when verifying his measurements of the mountain, fell to his death at one of the falls on the mountain…Which they ended up naming “Mitchell Falls”.