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TIL Oneida Silverware company started as a free love commune in upstate New York

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dDVZE TIL that American actor John Lithgow used to make music and has a discography that includes four albums.
x66Xb TIL of Palenquero, a Spanish-based creole spoken in the Colombian town of San Basilio de Palenque that mixes Spanish with Kikongo, a language spoken in the Congo region of Africa. It is the last Spanish-based creole language of its kind in Latin America.
0drAN TIL that race can be identified genetically with almost 100% accuracy, despite people claimijg it doesn't exist
1BED TIL that nations like the former USSR, Sweden, and a majority of other European nations have stockpiled reserves of steam locomotives in case something happens that renders their diesel or electric fleets inoperable, such as a Nuclear EMP event.
YLgZ TIL that music preferences are strongly correlated with personality type, and that two of the most similar personality profiles are those of classical music fans and heavy metal fans.