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TIL the United States is the country with the most Nobel Prize winners

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WZYX TIL that at midnight on Dec 30th, 1899, a ship positioned itself at the intersection of the date line and equator, such that the bow and stern occupied different seasons, hemispheres, days, years, and centuries. For the ship, Dec 31st never occurred.
nwLo TIL haggis is illegal in the US because one of its key ingredients is sheep lungs.
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