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pBPG TIL that the place in the United States with the longest name is Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, located near Webster, Massachusetts.
R5g5Q TIL that John Cena had a Tic-Tac (the mints) addiction in his WWE days, eating three boxes a day before a match
6Oyl TIL There was an abandoned Russian Cruise ship that refused to die, was left to float around the oceans, and may have sunk in 2013, but nobody knows for sure.
nW7Ro TIL of the "Green Book" which helped Black Americans know which restaurants, hotels and gas stations would serve them and/or do them no harm between the 1930s-1960s
MekaV TIL that Virgin group owner Richard Branson bought Necker Island in the Virgin Islands at the age of just 28 for $180,000 in 1978, it was supposed to be worth $6 million but he somehow managed to buy it for $180,000. He still lives on the island to this day.