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TIL Abraham Lincoln and George Washington are enshrined as deities at a Shinto shrine in Hawaii

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RRX7 TIL 91% of homicide cases in Baltimore are criminal on criminal
grAD TIL all aircraft in the Israeli airline El-Al are equipped with flares to protect against missiles.
dDyEQ TIL that the United States 50 State Quarter program was inspired by Canada making quarters for each province and territory in 1992 for the 125th anniversary of Confederation
gN1W TIL Nikola Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a ‘working model’ of his 'death beam’. He warned the management never to open it without taking proper precautions to avoid detonation. After his death in 1943, the box was pried open & they found nothing but a bunch of old lab components
Ae6B TIL of Dunbar’s number, a theory that suggests there is a cognitive limit to how many people one person can maintain a meaningful relationship with. The number he suggests, 150. There are 4 layers to this; your 5 closest friends, 10 “best” friends, 35 “close friends”, and 100 not so close friends.