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TIL New York City metropolitan region's GDP is above $2.5 trillion

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GYnjG TIL American medicine still runs on fax machines. A 2017 study found that the fax accounts for 75% of the country's medical communications.
LrEd TIL Abraham Lincoln tried multiple times to remove all Africans from mainland America and was described as “entirely devoted to the welfare of white men” by prominent abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass.
VoGm TIL that Dagwood Bumstead is a son of a billionaire railroad tycoon that got disinherited when he married Blondie.
JYXe1 TIL The concept of setting the clocks ahead in the spring in order to make better use of natural daylight was first introduced by US inventor Benjamin Franklin in 1784.
16W5V TIL that Pythagoras was primarily a religious preacher who preached the then popular Greek beliefs of reincarnation of soul, all living beings having soul, vegetarianism, avoiding root vegetables etc