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TIL South Carolina is the only state where all area codes start with an 8

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R5848 TIL divorce risk goes down if the husband wins the lottery but goes up if the wife wins.
x6l5B TIL that the color of an egg yolks is determined by the chickens diet
QOBa TIL the sandwich was supposedly invented by the Earl of Sandwich, who was so addicted to gambling that he refused to leave the table for meals, and demanded something he could eat with one hand. It caught on amongst other players, who ordered “the same as sandwich” - thus, “the sandwich”.
R71nl TIL there are 177,147 ways to tie a necktie. Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, a mathematician in Stockholm concluded this number by trying each possible way.
VMXE8 TIL of the London Hammer: A man-made tool that was mysteriously found encased in a 400 million year old rock.