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TIL 44% of Americans can’t swim

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9X7r TIL that the wax that made the 100 billionth Crayola crayon was poured by Mister Rogers himself.
aJnL TIL that scientists created the first synthetic living cell in 2010; they called it “Synthia.”
kJY1d TIL the Tea Act that provoked the Boston Tea Party actually reduced prices for US colonists.
b611Q TIL a pigeon named G.I. Joe saved over 100 soldiers in WWII by flying 20 miles in 20 minutes to stop a friendly bombing—earning a medal for heroism.
aZk0 TIL that a mob from a nearby county threatened to lynch Black newspaper editor John Mitchell Jr. for writing an editorial condemning a lynching. Armed with two pistols, he then traveled to that same county to report on the lynching on-site.