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TIL 44% of Americans can’t swim

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J1D4Q TIL that 10% of Japan's population is now aged 80 or older
ENaV TIL that in 1937 the Nazis held an exhibition of art you should dislike (“Degenerate Art”), the work of artists such as Ernst, Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Picasso.
oyX8 TIL in 1977 a plane crashed into Yosemite Park, containing almost 10,000 pounds of marijuana. Local rock climbers were first on the scene and amassed a fortune from the wreckage.
9YraB TIL that the tallest building in Vermont is Decker Towers, an apartment building which is only 11 stories or 124 feet tall.
WkW59 TIL that the 17 y/o sole survivor of a plane that exploded in midair over a Peruvian forest, fell 10,000 ft strapped to her seat and only received a concussion and popped eye capillaries. She swam/floated down a river for 10 days and was mistaken for a river spirit by her eventual local rescuers.