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TIL citizens of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau may enter, reside, study, and work in the United States indefinitely without a visa.

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a86gA TIL that the first national spelling championship was held in 1908, 17 years before the first Scripps National Spelling Bee, and was won by a 14-year-old black girl named Marie C. Bolden, who won with a perfect score.
y1bX TIL twin baby boys were separated and adopted out. When reunited years later they had both been named James, had married a woman named Linda, divorced and married Betty, both had a son named James Allen, among other similarities
69dWJ TIL "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" is a song known as "Like the Wind" recorded from a radio broadcast in West Germany in the early 1980s. Despite extensive searching, the band behind the song remains completely unidentified.
awgoZ TIL that introversion and extroversion is a spectrum with "ambiversion" in the center. An ambivert is moderately comfortable with groups and social interaction, but also relishes time alone, away from a crowd.
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