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TIL that there is no official language of the USA

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nL4d TIL America’s largest mental hospital is a jail.
ANOvn TIL that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a higher human development index than all but four countries in the world.
b9e5Q TIL during the Civil War there was a Union version of the song Dixie that started, "Away down South in the land of traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators."
M7OGa TIL: SPY, the S&P 500 ETF trust that virtually everyone invests in, is a legal trust that has 11 actual beneficiaries. They had no idea they were the beneficiaries, but when they die, SPY dissolves.
rRKrM TIL Mexico City is built in a bowl with no natural escape for water. Floods in 1629 left the city underwater for 4 years.